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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... remains important all the same . The dominant security tradition is that of realism , which for the most part remains focused on the state and various measures of power . These include the economy and military might . Where it has been ...
... remains pain- fully slow for the women whose social rights have been determined in order to sustain male domination and advantage . It is this global social institution , of Direct Control Violence , which leads to thousands of avoid ...
... remains safe from the insecurities they prioritize and , given the gender domination of the IR discipline , it is inevitably females and children who are lower in the ranks of security ' tables ' . The statistics gathered in the ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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