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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... agency . Argues that these structures , institutions and agency are change- able social constructivism , rather than intransigent reflections of fixed values , and comments on the implications of this for the discipline of international ...
... agency and outcomes according to a given ideational agenda contained within the structure . Furthermore , they may preserve or transform a status quo , but , where their origins may suggest impartiality , they are rarely neutral in ...
... agency . For Dessler ( 1989 ) , accepting this was essential to understanding the reproduction of structure , whilst structure created agency . That is , humans choose to enact , ignore or reject the ideological will of the structure by ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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