HLTC05H3 Chapter Notes -Structural Violence, Diocletianic Persecution, Social Forces
2 Jun 2013
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Hltc05 week 5 - farmer 2005 - on suffering and structural violence. Tb, most forms of extreme suffering like hunger, torture, rape: 1991: human suffering index examined by international health and population experts, observed various human welfare measures; haiti was in top 4 and only country located in. Acephie joseph"s story: kay - village that is of settlement of refugees, largely of displaced farmers who blame their poverty on a large dam miles away which brought neither electricity nor water. Chouchou and joseph were victims of structural violence, they were at risk of such a fate long before their destinies were altered, the social and economic forces that helped to shape the. Aids epidemic are the same forces leading to chouchou"s repression and death. Liberation theology: uses social analysis to explain and deplore human suffering. Its key texts hones in on the suffering but also to the forces that promote suffering.
