Dec 01, 2024
Publication
Revisiting structural violence: Galtung’s legacy and power relations
The article offers a critical re-examination of Johan Galtung’s concept of structural violence, a foundational idea in the field of peace studies yet often challenged for its vagueness. The author addresses this weakness by bringing Galtung’s theoretical framework into dialogue with Foucault’s notion of the “state of domination,” understood as a arrangement of power relations that radically constrain individual freedom and perpetuate injustice and oppression.