Women's Studies 1022F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Frontline Combat, Capability Approach, International Financial Institutions

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1022F/G
• Professor: Bipasha Baruah

Document Summary

Direct violence has its roots in cultural and structural violence; then it feeds back and strengthens them. All three forms interact as a triad. We are trapped in a vicious cycle that is now threatening to destroy life on earth. Forms: war, murder, rape, assault, verbal attacks: structural violence- (dislocation, poverty, disease, hunger, decreased social spending) Structural violence is injustice and exploitation built into a social system that generates wealth for the few and poverty for the many, stunting everyone"s ability to develop their full humanity. By privileging some classes, ethnicities, genders, and nationalities over others, it institutionalizes unequal opportunities for education, resources, and respect. In political terms, globalization has reduced the ability of governments to manage their national economies. Globalization can be understood as a complex process of economic, political, and cultural change on a world scale that entails integration, marginalization, exploitation and resistance. Governments as institutions have been eroded a lot some positives some negatives.