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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... mortality affects the developing world , ' where the maternal mortality ratio is 540 deaths per 100,000 live births ' with most occurring in Africa and Asia ( ibid .: 32 ) . Typically , these figures will be unrepresentative of reality ...
... mortality Mortality of children under five , infanticide and maternal mortality have been shown to be among the most pressing human insecurity issues of our time . These deaths far outnumber those in military conflict . In the following ...
... mortality FIGURE 5.2 Mapping institutional roles in infanticide , under - five mortality and maternal mortality and institutionally normalized . This process is accorded informal in- stitutional ' status ' because of its clear objective ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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