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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... partners occurs all over the world as a persist- ent , structural action . In some places , however , it is represented using different language and definitions , with ' culture ' also introduced to both explain and legitimize partner ...
... partner murder persists . In 2005 , 866 women were murdered , suggesting that more than 600 died by their partners ' hands . This data comes from the six countries that differenti- ated male from female murders and responded to an ...
... partners and partners ' families and friends . Socially institutionalized and predominant practices merge with political , legal and civic institutions such as the constabulary , the rule of law and the legislature . While these ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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