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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... dowry is designed to cover such economic ' shortfalls ' . It reflects the ' exaltation of the married state as the only desirable or socially acceptable state for women Parents of girls ... offer a dowry , in cash and kind ... as ...
... dowry remains common practice , failure to pro- vide such transfers of cash and goods can result in punishment . Some- times , social gossip can be enough to damage a poor family's community standing and reputation . Failure to pay dowry ...
... ( dowry ) Civil acceptance and reinforcement of female low value Belief and dowry murders Constabulary socialization and social participation and omission of action FIGURE 5.1 Key causative actors and processes in belief and dowry ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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