GEOG 3050 Chapter Notes -Human Security, Cultural Conflict, Environmental Security
23 Apr 2013
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Bollens - journal of human security page 36-49. Human security - advances a more people and individual centered notion of security than found in state centric concepts of national security. Broadens concept from one of freedom from agression to encompass social and econ aspects of living (freedom from want) Cities and urban policiy makers are key participants -->dev of cities and urban services can produce harmful disruptions or create long term lanscape of econ disparity and marginalization. Now look at structural violence that create and maintain disadvantage --->woven into social econ and pol systems (unequal chances) Special importance in cities prone to intense inter- communal conflict and violence refletcting ethnic or nationalist fractures i. e jerusalem, belfast, johannesburg, nicosia, Montreal, mumbai, beirut, baghdad etc (conflict and violence associated with ethnic or pol differences) Political control of these cities becomes contested -->can be viewed. Important is whether ethnonationalist compostion of inmigrants and. Especialy when intentsify group sorting (groups may be racial,
