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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2006
Structural violence refers to the social structures that put people in harm's way. Farmer and colleagues describe the impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda.
Paul E Farmer   +3 more
openaire   +6 more sources

From Racial Difference to Racial Indifference: The Neo-Liberal Narrative and Its Colonial Legacy Through the Example of Washington Black (2018) by Esi Edugyan

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2021
The present article centres on Washington Black—a neo-slave narrative whose eponymous hero documents his route from slavery to freedom. The novel offers insight into how the structural legacy of colonialism lives on in (neo-)liberalism, which is ...
Marta Fratczak-Dabrowska
doaj   +1 more source

Violence and resistance: Moroccan domestic workers after the closure of Spain’s southern border

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2023
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Moroccan women crossed the border between Melilla and Morocco on a daily basis to work in domestic employment, a consolidated niche sector of cross-border employment for low-skilled working-class women. When the
Lucía Granda, Rosa M. Soriano-Miras
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Reasons for School Violence and Education Strategies

open access: yesCenter for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
For the purposes of the research, we developed a concept of structural reasons that we theoretically assume appear as typical structural reasons for violence in schools.
Janez Krek
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Violence Ensues in Myanmar: The On-Going Ferocity Against Rohingya Muslims

open access: yesMalaysian Journal of International Relations, 2019
Rohingya Muslims have been subjected to structural violence committed by the Government of Myanmar and the military junta for several decades. The sheer refusal of rights of these people is a classic example of structural violence as explained by Johan ...
Shireen Mushtaq   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Markets and Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this commentary, I address different forms of corporate violence, in particular how some contemporary corporate practices result in violence.
Banerjee, S. B.
core   +1 more source

Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican inner-city. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BackgroundThe United States is experiencing a continuing crisis of gun violence, and economically marginalized and racially segregated inner-city areas are among the most affected.
Bourgois, Philippe   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Tales of endings and beginnings : cycles of violence as a Leitmotif in the narrative structure of the Bhadrakāḷīmāhātmya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The asura’s demise at the hands of the goddess is a theme frequently revisited in Hindu myth. It is the chronicle of a death foretold. The Bhadrakāḷīmāhātmya, a sixteenth century regional purāṇa from Kerala, narrates the tale of fierce goddess Bhadrakāḷī
van Brussel, Noortje
core   +2 more sources

Peace, violence & social distance: Ethnography of an elite school in India

open access: yesCogent 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
doaj   +1 more source

City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
{Excerpt} Unpacking and applying the concept of structural violence is one of the principal tasks of this book. To be clear from the outset, however, in lodging the experiences of the men and women I encountered in the larger rubric of structural ...
Gardner, Andrew M.
core   +2 more sources

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