Neoliberal economic policy functions as covert structural violence

Evidence

In these terms, for example, we can recognize that the structural violence embodied by a neoliberal order of austerity measures, structural adjustment, rampant deregulation, corporate megamergers, and a widening gulf between rich and poor is a form of covert violence in its own right that is often a catalyst for more recognizably overt violence. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 38

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the extraction/globalization strand and echoes ‘austerity as slow harm’ material from the polyad. — connects to: Neoliberalism resorts to violent enforcement when local socialities reject its order — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1887; Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 88; Neoliberal market freedom required state violence to enforce submission to the market — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 328 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Illustrates Galtung’s structural violence concept by applying it to neoliberalism.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism resorts to violent enforcement when local socialities reject its order #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1887
• Neoliberal market freedom required state violence to enforce submission to the market #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 328
• Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it #expands (0.80) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 88
• Neoliberal force is deployed against local socialities coded as irrational or premodern #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1887
• Neoliberal human rights legitimize state violence to protect global markets. #expands (0.75)
• Neoliberalism replaces the welfare state with a traffic-cop state #expands (0.75)