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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... environment is degraded by excessive agricultural production ; commod- ity prices fall and devalue local stock ; land is given over from private subsistence to international export ; state subsidies and welfare provision decline ; and ...
... environment determines this , in line with most theories of evolutionary biology . Human genius has , however , tamed the natural environment to the extent that ' adventure seekers ' tired of mundane , secure living may now have to ...
... environment as people are forced to grow ever more export crops and , in turn , undermine the environment in a vicious cycle . Even this approach might have some benefit , if the profits reflected fair rules and the returns were to be ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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