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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... legitimacy was challenged by the appellation ' communist ' . Contemporaneously , and in similar fashion to Dom Helda Camara's experience , aid agencies are lauded when they bring relief to starving infants , but when the nostrums of the ...
... legitimacy and authority , coupled to basic human psychological subroutines , few people inside the Bank and other parallel organizations have an incentive to critically challenge underlying claims and assumptions or their modus ...
... legitimacy by ' cross - dressing in the legitimating garb of science ' ( 2007 : 15 ) . But whichever theory better ex- plains the hegemony , legitimacy , lack of alternatives and destructiveness of the system , what is lacking ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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