Addressing Structural Violence and Injustice

Paul Farmer believes it is crucial to address the systemic and structural issues/conditions that cause suffering because uncovering those corrupt power structures can enable us to address them and better understand the ways in which these structures…

Prompt Critical Reflection 6: Tools for Change: We Need More than Expertise to Address Structural Injustice

Prompt CR #8: Embodied Being: Human Vulnerability, Connection, Responsibility

Prompt CR # 7: Ideas and Action for Social Change, Moral Obligations and To Hell with Good Intentions

Structural Issues and the Effects They Have on Others

What? In the passage Letter to My Son by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Coates’ central message about living in a black body centers around the idea of understanding the structural issues that come with living in a black body and the appropriate…

Tools For Change Critical Reflection

In the chapter “Suffering and Structural Violence” by Paul Farmer, Farmer addresses the importance of recognizing the systemic and structural issues that cause suffering. He does this by pointing out

“While certain kinds of suffering are…

What: Paul Farmer in “Pathologies of Power” describes the suffering of people due to political upheaval, economic stagnation and displacement in the name of progress. Case in point the “living laboratory for the study of affliction” (Farmer, 30) that is Haiti. Farmer’s first-hand account comes during his post-graduation work in Haiti in the 1980s…

The Changes Through Our Eyes (Critical Reflection #7)

A question you have about each piece (with a quote from each) (3 questions, 3 quotes)

1. “Ideas for Action” by Cynthia Kaufman

Government Issues

Farmer believes that it is important to talk about the systematic and structural issues related to conditions that cause suffering because many third world countries such as Haiti are living in poverty due to the lack of the government addressing critical issues that are deep inside the…

CR 6: Structure

What:

Farmer believes it is crucial to address the system and structural issues that causes suffering because he believes that structural violence causes more damage than a “century’s worth of sorcery” (pg. 28).

“structural violence damages and…