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- ISBN 9780197634028
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 235 x 156mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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. Corresponding epistemic forces tied to profit and wealth accumulation for beneficiary groups often go untracked. 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 structural racism can be dismantled without addressing gendered violence. It also 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.
Elena Ruíz is Director and Associate Professor of The Research Institute for Structural Change (RISC) at Michigan State University. She is a survivor advocate and served as the Principal Researcher on Gender-Based violence for MeToo International, the organization behind the #metoo movement. Her writings on structural justice and system change have focused on race, gender, ethnicity, and colonial occupation in the Americas.
