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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... honour ' and dowry killings here are referred to as belief killings . This term will be applied throughout this book after the concept of ' honour ' has been more thoroughly dissected . The term ' honour killing ' is a disturbing ...
... honour can be achieved in sport , especially in a violent competition like rugby , among others . In Victorian England , a man retained his honour by fighting with other contenders for his choice of woman , and such honour was codified ...
... honour ' killings ' Honour ' killings are referred to here as belief killings in an attempt to disconnect a positively held social construction ( honour ) from the illegiti- mate violence of partner murder . They occur , as we discussed ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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