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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... cause of death among children worldwide ... an estimated 3,900 ... every day ' ( UNDP 2005 : 24 ) . There are multiple influences on children who become infected through water and excrement ( they are often found together in river ...
... cause of more than 10 million child deaths per year , it reveals priorities in political , social and economic ... cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management ( excluding accidental or incidental causes ) during ...
... cause women to die in pregnancy , or the prioritization of boys above girls for scarce food and medical care . Partner violence during pregnancy also ' ac- counts for a substantial but largely unrecognised proportion of maternal ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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