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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... considered reasonable . Indeed , recent attempts to posthumously pardon British soldiers executed for ' cowardice ' or deser- tion during the First World War meet with very mixed reactions . But across the board , these behaviours and ...
... considered ' honourable ' and is claimed to result in martyrdom ; few in the West ac- cept this or attempt to understand how such an act may be considered ' honourable ' . In the West , ' honour ' is constituted and acquired in a range ...
... considered a ' double burden ' in relation to the revenue - generating capacity of males . Not only do they not bring in cash or other tradable commodities , they subtract from the sum total of household income because they need to eat ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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