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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... constructivism is concerned with how humans direct the outcomes of international security or , as Ruggie suc- cinctly put it , it is ' about human consciousness and its role in interna- tional life ' ( 1998 : 856 ) . Similarly for ...
... constructivism as a means of understanding and explaining the human insecurity discussed in previous chapters . It has also argued that realist assumptions undermine human security through their limited , gendered field of vision and ...
... constructivism to propose the flexibility and mutability of masculin- ity itself . It , like the ideas it prioritizes and identifies as structural , can develop in response to empirical evidence and positivist argument to evolve into a ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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