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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... direct , physical force , in the same way that narrow definitions of security have been accused of being constricted and one - dimensional ( Roberts 2005 , 2006 ) . We often tend to understand violence as a premeditated act by an ...
... direct violence . This seems to occur on a limited scale , however , in the sense that there is little evidence to demonstrate a connection between structural economic intervention and wide - scale , continuous direct violence that ...
... direct invest- ment made immune through the ' renting ' of state agencies such as the police or army to protect the ' investors ' from the indigenous people they are harming or robbing . Conclusion The question posed at the beginning of ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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