Systemic exclusion and failed accountability constitute violence beyond physical force

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. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines structural violence as hidden, unacknowledged institutional exclusion.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ‘Small acts of decorum toward corpses’ theme about unacknowledged harm and to structural violence literature (Farmer, Galtung). — connects to: Structural exclusion that hides its own mechanisms constitutes violence — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741; the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”