Structural Violence

inequality and the harm it causes

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Some featured texts on structural violence are below. Hover over the image and click an arrow for different texts.

  • Featured · Read · Structural Violence as main theme · United States

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    The Spirit Level

    • May 30, 2011

    This might be the best book dealing with social issues that I’ve read in a long, long time.  It is also the only inequality, poverty, and global health related book,[…]

  • Featured · International · Read · War / Conflict

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    Witness to War

    • May 29, 2011

    I stumbled onto this book serendipitously, browsing on Amazon for books related to books related to some book on El Salvador that I’d enjoyed.  From a literary standpoint it’s not[…]

  • Development in Poor Countries · Featured · International · Read

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    Travesty in Haiti

    • April 30, 2011

    This book is either the biggest fraud or the most honest accounting of corruption on development in Haiti that I’ve ever come across.  The stories recounted within are so unbelievable[…]

  • Biographies / Personal Stories · Featured · Read · Structural Violence as main theme

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    Mountains Beyond Mountains

    • April 29, 2011

    This is truly my favorite book in the entire world.  I keep a handful of uses copies on my bookshelf, and will thrust this book into the hands of any[…]

  • Featured · Health · Read · Structural Violence as main theme

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    Pathologies of Power

    • May 3, 2010

    Paul Farmer is an anthropologist and physician, head of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University, and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti.  He founded Partners in Health[…]

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Inequality

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Commodifying the body to fit in or stand out

  • May 31, 2013

To understand the commodification of the body we must ask ourselves what the body is — what it represents, what it means.  Each body means and represents different things to[…]

Inequality

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Aids and abrogration

  • May 17, 2013

“In the United States, a rumor that AIDS is part of a government conspiracy to control the population of minorities circulates persistently among African American communities…” notes AIDS rumors, imaginary[…]

More (mostly posts from my blog)

Inequality

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Doctors, shamans, and clowns.

  • May 3, 2013

Clown Doctors: Shaman Healers of Western Medicine makes the argument that the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit — a troupe of performers who dress as clowns in white coats[…]

Inequality

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Radical contextualization: an anthropology of mathematics

  • April 18, 2013

“Radical contextualization: contributions to an anthropology of racial/ethnic health disparities” by Chapman and Berggren argues that the world is plagued by a system of global apartheid, wherein privileged classes enjoy[…]

Inequality

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Tumors, race, and socioeconomics

  • November 10, 2012

Recently presented data show that the more deadly (ER and PR negative) type of breast cancer tumors are more common in women of color. Black women had more than double[…]

Inequality

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Whooping cough: this is structural violence

  • August 22, 2012

When a baby dies from an entirely preventable disease, I can’t think of a better example of structural violence.  This short video segment speaks for itself: Watch Losing a Baby[…]

Inequality

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Some interesting deaths data.

  • June 6, 2012

Not much time to write about this now, but wanted to share before I forgot.  Also, this.  And this.  I have a lot of backlog to write about.  Oh yeah,[…]

Inequality

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The color of the race problem is white

  • March 11, 2012

Two great talks from Robert Jensen:

Inequality

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Ten reasons the U.S. is no longer the home of the free

  • March 11, 2012

There’s a pretty good talk on YouTube, from Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, posted by Harvard Law School. Nader makes a compelling case for the continuing abridgement of freedoms in[…]

Inequality

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News media and propaganda

  • March 1, 2012

Salon has a pretty digestible write-up about the conflict of interest between TV military experts (“retired generals” and such) who are shown to viewers as neutral advisors while privately profiting[…]

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  • Recent Book Reviews

    • Strength in What RemainsJune 2, 2011
    • The Spirit LevelMay 30, 2011
    • The Uses of HaitiMay 30, 2011
    • Witness to WarMay 29, 2011
  • Recent Audio Reviews

    • Kenyan torture victims seek compensationApril 5, 2011
    • A day in the life of a SomalianMarch 16, 2011
    • Structural violence in popular musicMarch 5, 2011
    • Womb to TombFebruary 26, 2011
  • Recent Film Reviews

    • T-shirt TravelsJuly 4, 2011
    • Washing machines and maternal mortalityMay 22, 2011
    • Rx For SurvivalApril 30, 2011
    • An Iran primerMarch 30, 2011

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