scholarly journals Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe: The Case Study of a Family Coping with Violence

2014 ◽  
pp. 84-100
Keyword(s):  
Structural Violence ◽  
Family Coping

Families: A Link or a Liability?

1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Kupferschmid ◽  
Tess L. Briones ◽  
Carrie Dawson ◽  
Cheryl Drongowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Normal Family ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Family Coping ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Social Support Systems

Hospitalization in a critical care setting has multiple effects on patients and their families. For patients, it can be a frightening and dehumanizing experience, while families are confronted with stressors that can disrupt normal family functioning. The nurse is the pivotal figure in the health care system who can positively affect family coping through the support offered. With family needs met, they are then strengthened and able to support their family member. This article examines the roles and relationships of families, social support systems, and nurses. Through the framework of social support, nurses provide emotional, instrumental, spiritual, and appraisal assistances to families. This can potentially positively affect the family’s adaptation to a stressful situation, and thus the family’s ability to provide support to the patient. A case study analysis is described to illustrate the interactions and interventions through a model of family support

scholarly journals Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-271
Author(s):  
Salo de Carvalho ◽  
David R Goyes ◽  
Valeria Vegh Weis
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Direct Violence ◽  
The Right

Abstract There is a dearth of criminological scholarship on how the political persuasions of governments affect Indigenous people as it relates to human rights and environmental consequences, whether positive or negative, for Indigenous peoples. To address this gap, we develop a comparative instrumental case study of the policies concerning Indigenous peoples implemented during two political periods in Brazil: the administrations of presidents Silva (2003–2010) and Rousseff (2011–2016) and the administrations of Temer (2016–2018) and Bolsonaro (2019–). We explore the consequences for Indigenous peoples of these leftist and the right-wing governments. We argue that governments of both political leanings victimize Indigenous populations, with leftist governments using structural violence and right-wing governments engaging additionally in symbolic and direct violence.

scholarly journals Rackets and the Markets of Violence: A Case Study of Altavista, Medellín, Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2097501
Author(s):  
Mary Luz Alzate-Zuluaga ◽  
Williams Gilberto Jiménez-García
Keyword(s):  
Structural Violence ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Social State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Village

An analysis of violence using data from 2018 to 2019 in the village of Altavista in Medellín, Colombia, concludes that economic globalization and a crisis of the social state have led to an increase in inequality and structural violence. This phenomenon, culturally reinforced by the acceptance and normalization of these events, constitutes a window of opportunity for the entrenchment of violent entrepreneurship using extortive economic activities to accumulate capital, resulting in increased precarity for the inhabitants of the village. Un análisis de la violencia en la aldea de Altavista en Medellín, Colombia, utilizando los datos de 2018 a 2019 concluye que la globalización económica y una crisis del estado social han dado lugar a un aumento en la desigualdad y la violencia estructural. Este fenómeno, culturalmente reforzado por la aceptación y normalización de dichos acontecimientos, constituye una ventana de oportunidad para el afianzamiento de una violenta cultura económica basada en la acumulación de capital a partir de la extorsión, lo cual exacerba la presencia de la precariedad en las vidas de los habitantes del pueblo.

Structural Violence: A Tale of Three Women from Marginalized Communities in Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashrafuzzaman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Forms Of Violence

The notion of structural violations of human rights is increasingly gaining currency in international human rights arenas. Structural violence yields a complex picture of inequality in terms of social, economic, political and human rights arenas. The study intended to understand the extent of structural violence with a special reference to the state of human rights of the women of the marginalized communities Bihari, Garo and Ahmadiyya in Bangladesh. The study employed a qualitative approach, applying a case study technique that dealt with three women of these communities and aiming to substantiate structural violence in relation to human rights perspectives. The study revealed that the women of the three marginalized communities experienced diverse forms of violence, including psychological, physical, sexual, etc., that violated their human rights. There was also a failure to restore their peace and security. The theory of structural violence provides a useful framework for understanding the structural inequalities that systematically deny marginalized communities, especially women of these communities, from achieving basic human rights in their daily lives.

scholarly journals Structural Violence against Women in the Pentecostal Movement: Proposals for a South African Deconstruction Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Nel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Women's Ministry ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
Apostolic Faith Mission

The phenomenon of discrimination against women within Pentecostal churches in terms of ministry and leadership is investigated to propose a strategy for deconstructing such structural violence. The violence is described in terms of a case study, the history of a prominent South African Pentecostal denomination (Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa) that initially recognised the involvement of women in all forms of ministry; subsequently in the 1940s refusing their ministry as preachers and pastors, and eventually at the end of the 1970s offering them the same ministerial privileges as for males. Their recognition is, however, characterised by a practical non-application of a church order that in effect represents the commitment of violence against women. It is argued that the change in perspectives of women’s ministry and leadership is hermeneutical in nature. To deconstruct it would need revisiting Pentecostalism’s original hermeneutic as well as restoring its restorationist urge of egalitarianism and inclusiveness.

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