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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... common in poor societies with inadequate state social provision set in a deeply patriarchal context for females to be discriminated against routinely . Maternal mortality is also strongly affected by this destructive phenomenon ...
... common and either ignored or , if publicly cast , not subject to particular laws protecting women in the private domain of the male home . Belief killings are social acts , in the sense that they are conducted within societies conscious ...
... common interest of serving their citizens and maintaining office over non - zero - sum issues , they have shown a propensity to embark on cooperative action through institutions ( 1984 ; Murphy 2000 : 798 ) . An issue with such gravitas ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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