ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Symbolic Power, Structural Violence
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There is a big migration from southern mexico to northern mexico then across the border to the agricultural fields. Lots of industrial agriculture in northern mexico. A lot of agricultural companies use the same types of things we use in california. Symbolic violence: way we socially and culturally are able to maintain this inequality, this suffering on human bodies. About making the people who are suffering, somehow different from us. Structural violence: an economic, political, social system set- up to produce extreme social inequalities in which people barely make enough money to survive. Violence done to people"s bodies and lives where young people don"t get the education they need because they"re working and old people"s bodies are damaged because of all the work they do. Undocumented workers do much of their work in our society, and everyone benefits from that.
