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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... undermined the necessity for our original genetic predisposition . It would appear that social conditions have evolved far more rapidly than our genes , which may explain in part the tension between the ' nature and nurture ...
... undermining human insecurity in the first instance . In other words , the tools for biopolitical life and security are ... undermined by the international financial policies of global Western institutions like the IMF and the World Bank ...
... undermined by girls ' relegation behind boys in education opportunities . This decreases female independence , which ... undermines the social security of a family during the child's early life , and then adds greater financial toll to ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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