Paul FarmerNeoliberalism is an ideology which, rather than seeking to repair poverty and social inequalities, has as its goal to merely manage them.
Political economy is a historically deep and geographically broad analysis which helps us avoid seeing only the residue of meaning: The puddles, but not the rainclouds, and not at all the gathering thunderclouds.
Structural violence is a host of offenses against human dignity, including extreme and relative poverty, social inequalities ranging from racism to gender inequality, and the more spectacular forms of violence that are uncontested human rights abuses. ..
Structural violence is best understood not by looking at powerful present day actors to explain misery, as doing so will make us fail to see how inequality is structured and legitimated over time.
Structural violence is structured and structuring. It constricts the agency of its victims.
Structural violence is the erasure, distortion and desocialization of history such that hegemonic accounts of what happened and why can emerge.
