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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... concept of security needed to be opened in two directions . First , the notion of security should no longer be limited to the military domain . Rather , it should have a more general meaning that could be applied not just to the ...
... concept because it is an intellectual and cognitive construct , not an objective fact ' ( 2005 : 8 ) . From this perspective , it is a changing and necessarily subjective concept that involves many realities depending on one's ontology ...
... concept of ' honour ' has been more thoroughly dissected . The term ' honour killing ' is a disturbing expression . First , the concept of ' honour ' is rarely the subject of critical consideration . Second , while masculine in ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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