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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... social construction . In some regions , characterized by political systems determined by the secular state legitimized by substantial democracy , challenges regard- ing relative status between the two main sexes of male and female have ...
... social transformations . Second , the international structure that states inhabit is a socially engineered extension of a sustained sex - based division of labour based on outdated necessities from much harsher times in earlier human ...
... constructed institutions ( as distinct from abstract notions ) appear absent from Wendt's model of social construction but , again , are evident when causation is associated with human activity rather than ' act of God ' or ' fate ' or ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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