Social Inequality and Structural Violence: Narrative Study of “Widows Issue” at Mawchi Mine in Myanmar

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.91How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender inequality; structural violence; widows; mining; gender relations; Mawchi

Abstract

This paper explores specifically the “widows’ issue”. The social exclusion and extreme deprivation faced by widows at Mawchi mine indicates they live in a very long term period of armed conflict, a conflict zone as well as the mining zone. This group of widows has never been visible to the public and to the policy makers or the state. Unspoken structural violence affects people differently based on various forms of social structures and it is very closely linked to social injustice [1], [2]. It indicates the political, cultural and gender relations that are related into gender hierarchy and the domination of patriarchal systems. Narrative approaches in qualitative research will be identified in order to create understanding of the relationship between the micro level (individual) and macro level structure (society). Significantly, this paper challenges the stakeholders or policy initiatives both national and global that the development agenda should be addressing the painful absence of “widows’ issue” as one of the significant important issues to include women’s economic self-sufficiency, gender equality and well-being.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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