Provide an analytical and cogent 300 – 500 words response on the assigned reading below.
The response must identify key concepts or arguments, make meaningful connections to at least two other texts or concepts or arguments assigned for the week, and employ analytical language.
Reading:
Farmer, P. (2004). On suffering and structural violence: A view from below. In Scheper-Hughes, N. & Bourgois, P. (Eds.), Violence in war and peace: An anthology (pp. 281 – 289). Blackwell Publishers.
This article discusses Farmer’s research in Haiti on the mechanisms by which social forces ranging from poverty to racism become embodied as individual experiences. In Haiti, large-scale social forces have structured risk for most forms of extreme suffering.