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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... child who never had a chance , but tragic for the indictment it makes upon a section of humanity dominated by ... child's birth , and her almost immediate and violent disposal : The new - born cried lustily as it came into this world ...
... Child health is especially vulnerable to unclean water and the prevalence of water - borne diseases that can easily kill children when untreated , especially since the human immune system is not normally adequately developed until ...
... child deaths are preventable . It is evident that , of the types of intervention required to diminish this avoidable moral cataclysm , most are low - cost and [ are ] highly cost - effective . Two in every three child deaths could be ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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