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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... expectations of a brutally patriarchal order . She died because of value systems that have been learned and which find ultimate expression in the concept of female infanticide . Six months later , her mother returned to the site at ...
... expectations of sex equality ( MacKinnon 2006 ; Runyan and Peterson 1991 ) . Traditionally - and it is definitely changing men believed in the home as their domain to control - especially as only they could own houses . Men and women's ...
... expectations that lead to lethal human insecurity in dowry and belief killings . It may be the case that some societies that routinely dispense belief and dowry murders may also be routinely vulnerable to far greater threats that render ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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