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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... Institutions ( IFIs ) in shap- ing conditions that compromise human security in general , and how the most ... institutions . Institutions take differing forms . They may be formal , constituted entities that labour to an agreed goal ...
... institutions serve pre - eminent neoliberalism . Both these sets of formal and informal institutions conform to the models outlined by Payne ( 2005 ) , Cox ( 1984 , 1981 ) and Williams ( 1994 ) , for whom institutions perpetuate a ...
... institutions such as the constabulary , the rule of law and the legislature . While these institutions do not normally deliberately kill women directly ( except in the cases of judicial executions or renegade actors ) , they play an ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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