Structural exclusion that hides its own mechanisms constitutes violence

Evidence

But we might think of violence more extensively also as the dispersal throughout the social of arrangements that systematically close off institutional access on the part of individuals in virtue of group membership, and indeed that render relatively hidden the very instrumentalities that reproduce that inaccessibility. This is violence not just in virtue of wrenching life’s possibilities from some in order to elevate those of others, though it is clearly that. It is violent the more so in refusing to acknowledge the sources of the inaccessibility, attributing them through the forces of racial subjection to the individualized or group capacities, or their relative absence, of those who lack access. It follows that racial conditions of life as we have come to experience them throughout modernity - the racial state in that broader sense of the term identified above - are inherently violent. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741

Categorization

• DEFINE: Redefines structural violence as access-closure that conceals its own instrumentalities and misattributes causes to group capacities.
• XREF: Extends vault definitions of structural racism (Bonilla-Silva, Feagin) by adding the epistemic dimension: violence lies partly in refusing to name sources. — connects to: Myth and epic exclude the other from relation through filiation-based violence. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 297; Structural factors alone can produce violence without prior animosity; Structural social closure is violence when sources of inaccessibility stay unacknowledged (+5 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Precise, dense reframing distinguishing structural violence from direct violence by its concealed instrumentalities and misattribution of causes — a definitional move worth sitting with.
• SEED: Article angle: epistemic violence as a defining feature distinguishing structural racial harm from mere inequality.

Broader Connections

• Structural social closure is violence when sources of inaccessibility stay unacknowledged #corroborates (0.92)
• Systemic exclusion and failed accountability constitute violence beyond physical force #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741
• Structural factors alone can produce violence without prior animosity #qualifies (0.80)
• Neoliberal economic policy functions as covert structural violence #exemplifies (0.80) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 38
• Strong social ties also enable exclusion and violence toward outsiders #expands (0.75) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 528