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Skeletal Markers of Physiological Stress as Indicators of Structural Violence: A Comparative Study between the Deceased Migrants of the Mediterranean Sea and the CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection [PDF]
Biology, 2023 Structural violence is an indirect form of violence that can lead to physiological consequences. Interestingly, these physiological disruptions may affect the skeletons and can therefore provide relevant information on violence and way of life in the ...
Lucie Biehler-Gomez +7 more
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Genealogy, 2021 Through the lens of structural violence, Black feminism and critical family history, this paper explores how societal structures informed by white supremacy shaped the lives of three generations of rural African American women in a family in Florida ...
Evelyn Newman Phillips, Wangari Gichiru
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Muslim Personal Law, Yes and No: Religious Leader's Views on its Legalization [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2023 Muslim personal law (MPL) has been a controversial issue in South Africa. Proponents of it becoming legalized in South Africa, say that women would be handed benefits which they do not have because their marriages lack legal recognition.
Muhammed Suleman
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Violence in post-apartheid South Africa and the role of church and theology
In die Skriflig, 2004 South Africa is known as one of the most violent countries in the world. Since the seventeenth century, violence has been part of our history. Violence also played a significant role during the years of apartheid and the revolutionary struggle against ...
C.F.C. Coetzee
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Anthropological Engagements with Global Health
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2022 Epidemic infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, and more recently COVID-19, have persistent and devastating impacts in human populations across the globe.
Priscilla Medeiros +3 more
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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2023 The continual expansion of developmental frontiers has impacted dramatically upon Indigenous health in Brazil. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in Mato Grosso do Sul, its Indigenous populations were already living in circumstances of environmental ...
Raquel Dias-Scopel +2 more
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The transformative potential of gender justice in the land restitution programme in Colombia
Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017 This paper studies the existence of elements of gender justice in the ongoing land restitution process in Colombia, in order to analyse the potential of the Land Restitution Programme to contribute to the elimination of structural violence against women ...
Anne Kathrin von Au
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Welcome to Canada: Why Are Family Emergency Shelters ‘Home’ for Recent Newcomers?
Societies, 2020 Although Canada is recognized internationally as a leader in immigration policy, supports are not responsive to the traumatic experiences of many newcomers. Many mothers and children arriving in Canada are at elevated risk of homelessness.
Katrina Milaney +3 more
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020 This article brings disability theory and activism into conversation with environmental justice, a conversation that has often been stymied by a fundamental difference in approaching disability.
Julia Watts Belser
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Peace, violence & social distance: Ethnography of an elite school in India
Cogent Education, 2023 The article attempts to understand the concept of peace through the prism of social realities. The central argument deconstructs violence and peace as a variable of social distance.
Ashmeet Kaur
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