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Record W4407578292 · doi:10.4324/9781003311768-29

Structural Violence, Trauma, and the Pursuit of Happiness

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407578292 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Hugh Shewell

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicViolence, Religion, and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHappinessPsychologyCriminologySocial psychology

Abstract

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Liberal, capitalist societies such as Canada focus the treatment of stress and trauma on the individual. This is understandable given the roots of liberal ideology are embedded in individual sovereignty and the pursuit of happiness. While the impacts of stress and trauma can be severe on the individual, the focus on individual treatment diverts attention from the structural origins of traumatic events and their enduring circumstances. The chapter focuses on these origins and the state as an instrument of violence. It explores how capitalism, patriarchy, and racial supremacy have fueled not simply individual traumas but collective traumas, including the impacts of imperialism, cultural and racial genocide, the occupation and seizure of lands, environmental destruction, the oppression of women, and the entrenchment of poverty. The chapter is underpinned by Macpherson's analysis of liberal democracy, Chomsky's postulate of the state as a violent institution, and Freud's exploration of happiness. The chapter draws on other neo-Marxist, feminist, and critical theorists to argue why we must understand trauma as a collective, as well as an individual, experience. Liberal societies, it is argued, will only alleviate trauma when they abandon notions of individualism and embrace collective welfare as the path to happiness.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.289
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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