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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... avoidable human misery and avoidable death ; what Thomas ( 2000 : 4 ) referred to as ' the ancient and enduring con- cerns of humanity ' . I became increasingly perplexed by the absence of serious mainstream debate on the part of ...
... avoidable civilian deaths , the understanding of human security is simultaneously expanded to include human agency and indirect ( as well as direct ) violence communicated through institutions at the behest of global structures . Thus ...
... 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 ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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