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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... approach , so too emerged from the literature a growing consensus relating to a relationship between development and security , especially when security was defined in terms of the environment , natural resources and poverty . Few ...
... approach concerns life expectancy undermined by poverty , where poverty is expressed in terms of particular aspects of ill health . This approach , however , identifies only poverty as a determinant of human security ; and it does not ...
... approach of this work discusses the role of global structures , international institutions and human agency in the creation and per- petuation of human insecurity . It reflects Galtung's conceptualization of structural violence but it ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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