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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... priorities determined by international institutions dominated by particular ideologies of wealth provision and priorities . Biopolitical human security attends to the sustainable develop- ment needs of vulnerable populations , but the ...
... priorities , which have contributed little in the way of security for the millions of infant girls and boys , pregnant women and intimate partners who die unnecessarily every year . Feminist interventions are essential counterweights to ...
... priorities , human insecurity will remain marginal . It is neither ironic , nor a coincidence , that it is mostly females who have pointed this out . Social constructivism as a critique of realism Critical feminism denounces realism for ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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