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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... actions and the consequences of those actions on infants and other vulnerable people . Defending the narrow interpretation of human security is easy and perhaps for some necessary to minimize the impact on their own consciences of ...
... action or actions of an actor ; at the other , it may be the result of the activities of an institution or a structure , either of which might be construed as a perpetrator . Direct violence normally results in vis- ible victims and ...
... actions remote from the consequences of those actions and of which they may claim to have no realization and therefore no real culpability for negative outcomes . Arendt recorded that Eichmann ' could see no one , no one at all , who ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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