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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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. Most traditional definitions of violence are not particularly helpful because they limit themselves to rather narrow considerations of direct ... Structural violence and structures of violence.
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. Most traditional definitions of violence are not particularly helpful because they limit themselves to rather narrow considerations of direct ... Structural violence and structures of violence.
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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. guished between direct and indirect actions, and also identified 'invisible' actors such as institutions, systems and structures rather than simply human beings acting directly. Violence, then ...
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. guished between direct and indirect actions, and also identified 'invisible' actors such as institutions, systems and structures rather than simply human beings acting directly. Violence, then ...
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... structures of power and resource allocation in the particular arena' (domestic or international) – in short, to structural violence. These are fairly complex definitions and discussions that move far beyond some people's initial ...
... structures of power and resource allocation in the particular arena' (domestic or international) – in short, to structural violence. These are fairly complex definitions and discussions that move far beyond some people's initial ...
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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. structural violence could be thought of as 'deleterious conditions that derive from economic and political structures of power, created and maintained by human actions and institutions' (2004 ...
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. structural violence could be thought of as 'deleterious conditions that derive from economic and political structures of power, created and maintained by human actions and institutions' (2004 ...
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... structures require identification, along with the human agency involved in their construction and activity. The more that research 'denormalizes' the 'normal' structural precepts, the more the extent of structural violence will move ...
... structures require identification, along with the human agency involved in their construction and activity. The more that research 'denormalizes' the 'normal' structural precepts, the more the extent of structural violence will move ...
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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