Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Academic, 2008 - 208 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. |
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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. guished between direct and indirect actions , and also identified ' in- visible ' actors such as institutions , systems and structures rather than simply human beings acting directly . Violence ...
... direct relationship between the IMF and the World Bank , on the one hand , and discontent and violence on the other . Further evidence of structural influences in these processes comes from the developed world . Europe was alerted to ...
... violence beginning with grassroots resistance to damaging foreign direct invest- ment made immune through the ' renting ' of state agencies such as the police or army to protect the ' investors ' from the indigenous people they are ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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