#institutionalized violence

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

oh…. you don’t think of institutionalized violence as violence… 😕

[novellearningblog]

An End to Institutionalized Superstitious Killings & A Bumper Sticker

An End to Institutionalized Superstitious Killings & A Bumper Sticker

Very few peoples and cultures today participate in some form of ritual killing of other people or hold any beliefs that human sacrifices are necessary to appease a deity and ensure good fortunes for the future. Very few people have to worry about being killed for possessing magical powers or for having somehow been in contact with an evil mystical being. However, throughout much of human history,…

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[sfplhormelcenter]

In “Freedom with Violence” (Call #: 305.0973 R2466f) Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state's claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a "counterviolence" to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the modern subject. Rejecting liberal notions of modernity as freedom from violence or revolutionary ideas of liberty through violence, Reddy contends that liberal modernity is a structure for authorizing state violence.

Contemporary neoliberal societies link freedom to the notion of legitimate (state) violence and produce narratives of liberty that tie rights and citizenship to institutionalized violence. To counter these formulations, Reddy proposes an alternative politics of knowledge grounded in queer of color critique and critical ethnic studies. He uses issues that include asylum law and the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy to illustrate this significant rethinking of the terms of liberal modernity. 

[jjrodriguezv]

[no-bodys-muse]

My dumb cop cousin is saying he's so glad they didn't indict Wilson. Cuase he did his job the right way

What the ever living fuck thats terrifying... This is another cop saying this about him too. Goes to show ya.. 

[jjrodriguezv]

…poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation of workers, permanent unemployment, the lack of respect for one’s human dignity, and unjust limitations placed on personal freedom in the areas of self-expression, politics and religion. Poverty is a situation that destroys peoples, families, and individuals…[poverty is] ‘institutionalized violence.’

Gustavo Gutiérrez in A Theology of Liberation 

[bellemaddox]

The Judeo-Christian heritage, with its emphasis on father-god worship, also carries with it a gender dominance of male privilege. This hierarchy of male dominance is accompanied by the presence of violent social structures.

Eimear O'Neill and Edmund O'Sullivan, "Transforming the Ecology of Violence" 

[bellemaddox]

The 'dominator society' is laced through all our social, cultural, and economic institutions. In looking at our western historical heritage, we can see the dominator form in the four patriarchal establishments that have been in control of western history over the centuries: the classical empires, the ecclesiastical establishment, the nation-state, and the modern corporation. All of these institutions have been, in their historical makeup, exclusively male dominated and created primarily for the fulfillment of the human as envisaged by men. Historically, women had minimal if any consistent role in the direction of these establishments.

Eimear O'Neill and Edmund O'Sullivan, "Transforming the Ecology of Violence"