Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Publishing, 2008 M05 15 - 219 pages Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. David Roberts claims that by facing up to this relationship between social structures and massive avoidable human suffering we can create another system less prone to global violence. This book is a powerful intervention in the debate on human security and an urgent call to face up to our responsibilities to the millions killed needlessly each year. |
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Page 6
... various agencies of the United Nations (UN), are mostly not new. They are compiled in order to demonstrate the enormous discrepancy in human mortality in what is studied and supported with millions of dollars of research grants in well ...
... various agencies of the United Nations (UN), are mostly not new. They are compiled in order to demonstrate the enormous discrepancy in human mortality in what is studied and supported with millions of dollars of research grants in well ...
Page 12
... various measures of power. These include the economy and military might. Where it has been criticized for systemic weakness, neo-realism has emerged to fill the theoretical vacuum regarding the role of international systems as ...
... various measures of power. These include the economy and military might. Where it has been criticized for systemic weakness, neo-realism has emerged to fill the theoretical vacuum regarding the role of international systems as ...
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... various conventions noted here can be added the problematic but insightful concept of structural violence. It is this concept which benefits from some degree of qualification to remove it from the abstract and place it in the visible ...
... various conventions noted here can be added the problematic but insightful concept of structural violence. It is this concept which benefits from some degree of qualification to remove it from the abstract and place it in the visible ...
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... various regions showing abnormal ratios of males to females caused by 'sex-selective abortion, female infanticide ... and systemic and often fatal neglect of the health and nutritional needs of girls' (2002: 1236). They estimate that ...
... various regions showing abnormal ratios of males to females caused by 'sex-selective abortion, female infanticide ... and systemic and often fatal neglect of the health and nutritional needs of girls' (2002: 1236). They estimate that ...
Page 34
... various practices are common. These include: Feeding [the infants] poisonous milk of irukkam and kalli plants ... dropping crude husks into just-born's throats ... asphyxiation ... tobacco juice ... feeding hot, spicy chicken soup to ...
... various practices are common. These include: Feeding [the infants] poisonous milk of irukkam and kalli plants ... dropping crude husks into just-born's throats ... asphyxiation ... tobacco juice ... feeding hot, spicy chicken soup to ...
Contents
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FOUR Institutions the U5MR infanticide and maternal mortality | 69 |
FIVE Institutions and intimate murder | 88 |
SIX Human and realist security | 105 |
SEVEN International institutions | 117 |
EIGHT Andrarchy and neoliberalism | 136 |
NINE Global structures | 159 |
TEN Conclusion | 179 |
Bibliography | 186 |
Index | 202 |
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