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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... structures require identification , along with the human agency involved in their construction and activity . The more that research ' denormalizes ' the ' normal ' structural precepts , the more the extent of structural violence will ...
... structures form the basis of the dominant school of international relations , they are not without an expanding counter - narrative . Fierke , for example , considers structures as ' a product ' or constructed system or entity composed ...
... structures of belief and organization . Fur- thermore , unlike realist - based schools of thought , this model involves multiple structures functioning simultaneously , mutually reinforcing one another , both enmeshed and overlapping ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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