DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marlin Mine, Economy Of Guatemala, Structural Violence
22 Feb 2017
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Landscapes of resistance: community opposition to canadian mining company operations in. Defensura (film) talks about hudson bay company and human rights violations: sexual abuse, environmental depredations, violence , etc. Critical development theory from past development frameworks( disenfranchisement and anti-colonial viewpoint) Typology of violence : direct( murder, harassment, rape etc. ) and indirect/invisible forms( structural violence: racism, poverty, sexism etc. which lead to the disenfranchisement of marginalized groups) of violence. Resource extraction as structural violence as seen in latin america and africa. Mining employs 1 in 50 in canada. 1% of royalties go back to the guatemalan economy. Internal armed conflict turned to genocide (1960-1996) Orchestrated state terror, cia and us involved. In a country where the legacies of violence have been unaddressed, perpetrators are in positions of power and no formal reconciliation has been. Primarily male deaths, although there"s an increase in femicide( gender based violence, over.
