Calling Recognition Bluffs

Sertler, Ezgi

doi:10.4324/9780429435133-9

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Structural Violence

Ruíz

2024

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Enduring social inequalities in settler colonial societies are not an accident. They are produced and maintained by the self-repairing structural features and dynastic character of systemic racism and its intersecting oppressions. Using methods from diverse anticolonial liberation movements and systems theory, Structural Violence theorizes the existence of adaptive and self-replicating historical formations that underwrite cultures of violence in settler colonial societies. What often go untracked, however, are the corresponding epistemic forces tied to profit and wealth accumulation for beneficiary groups. The account offered here argues that these epistemic forces play a central role in producing and maintaining massive health inequalities and the maldistribution of disease burdens—including those associated with sexual violence—for marginalized populations. It upends the widespread view that dismantling structural racism can be done without addressing gendered violence, and it advocates for a theory of change rooted in reparative action and models of structural competency that respond to the built-in design of structural violence and the ecosystems of impunity that allow it to thrive.

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