Sentence examples for structural violence of from inspiring English sources

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"It is a normalization of a system of structural violence, of a state-sanctioned trafficking system".

Everybody had graduated long ago from equating the structural violence of the state with the violence of the armed resistance.

Black citizens on the other hand experienced the structural violence of apartheid policies, and faced brutal repression in their struggle for civil rights.

Societies throughout the world, including our own, suffer from the structural violence of poverty, inequality, pollution, hunger, racism and so on.

What is the specifically Buddhist valence of saying, as Batchelor does, that the practitioners of a secular Buddhism will "seek to understand and diminish the structural violence of societies and institutions as well as the roots of violence that are present in themselves"?

On Kristeva's view, "the structural violence of language's irruption as the murder of soma, the transformation of the body, the captation of drives" (Kristeva 1984, 75), is preceded by a loving father who makes possible the preliminary individuation of the infant from the mother.

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We are accustomed to living with the over-determining structural violences of capitalism, patriarchy, and racism — but we maintain the ability to point out egregious violations within these contexts.

Your argument that Mannie's "valid" point, namely, the truth that some white gay men rely on racist stereotypes dressed up as innocent parody, runs the risk of mimicking oppressive structural violence because of, what according to you, is its "cavalcade of homophobic myths about how the closet works and tired anti-queer sentiments" is wrong.

Quechua women are indeed a group persistently targeted by structural violence because of their two social identities—Indigenous and women which place them at the margins of Peruvian society.

We suggest that these socio-political structures represent a form of "structural violence" against particular sectors of society, undermining a vulnerable sub-population's capacity for self-determination with resultant detrimental effects on access to healthcare and social agency.

"These are not isolated incidents; they are part of structural violence against women because of their gender – 85% of young women in London have experienced sexual harassment – 85%!

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