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. Most traditional definitions of violence are not particularly helpful ... structural violence . It is this con- cept which benefits from some degree of qualification to remove it from the ...
... Violence , then , could be committed directly and deliberately , but could ... structural . This had clear implications for the expansion of the field of ... structural nature . It also suggested that people impoverished as a result of ...
... structural sense , the absence of war does not imply that other forms of mass violence , more broadly defined , are also absent . Weigert ( 1999 : 433 ) refers us ... structural violence could be thought of as ' deleterious conditions Two 20.
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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