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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... threats to human security is so broad as to include tsunamis and other ' non - man - made ' events . But there may ... threats to the individual , the more dif- ficult both human security theory and policy become ' ( 2004 : 381 ) . Owen ...
... threats to what was actually killing people ... If human security could cover the most basic threats , development would then address societal well- being ' ( ibid .: 381 ) . Owen determines that the key to the definitional and ...
... threats ( such as to a couple's children ) , threats of leaving a female spouse with no money , threats of having her put out of the house , constituted male responses to their removal Intimate murder 103.
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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