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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... normally , all three . ' Securitizing ' the millions of children , boys and girls , who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of female infanticide victims has already invoked the ire and concern of many traditionalists . In ...
... normally overstaffed owing to social phenomena like common social patronage , elite patronage and crony- ism . SAPS dictate that such bureaucracies are cut to improve economic efficiency and save money . They also insist on ending state ...
... normally armed , it is not uncommon to see violent civil agitation and confrontation . This is also a ' hard ' security issue . It involves complex government policy - making regarding financing security organs such as the constabu ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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