“Structural violence is one way of describing social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harm’s way… The arrangements are structural because they are embedded in the political and economic organization of our social world; they are violent because they cause injury to people … neither culture nor pure individual will is at fault; rather, historically given (and often economically driven) processes and forces conspire to constrain individual agency. Structural violence is visited upon all those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social progress.” - Dr. Paul Farmer - some of the easiest examples of structural violence involve police, military, or other state powers committing violent acts.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:40:10 +0000
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