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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... femicide ' ( ibid .: 15 ; Siya- chitema 2003 : 29 ) . Distinguishing and deploying this term are important because it identifies the sex of the victims distinct from the homicide category , with which many people are familiar as a ...
... femicide as ' lethal hate crime ' against females . It is the product of accumulated experiences reinforced by and within social , political and economic institutions and ' cultures ' resulting in the murder of girls and women because ...
... femicide ? What seems to be missing is an overarching term that conveys or categorizes the phenomenon defined as avoidable killing of females resulting from the social rules and economic determinism attached to females in a male ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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