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== Homicide through the market. == | == Homicide through the market. == | ||
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There doesn't seem to be a term for harms and deaths due to corporate/market mechanisms, even though this is a very common and large phenomenon. Start with the toxic industries: tobacco, opioids, lead, etc. This indicates to me that there is a need for the term to bring an accounting for the millions hurt and killed, which exceed those of well-known genocides. This sounds like a good subject for a PhD thesis, to assemble together the diverse harms and see their true scope. | There doesn't seem to be a term for harms and deaths due to corporate/market mechanisms, even though this is a very common and large phenomenon. Start with the toxic industries: tobacco, opioids, lead, etc. This indicates to me that there is a need for the term to bring an accounting for the millions hurt and killed, which exceed those of well-known genocides. This sounds like a good subject for a PhD thesis, to assemble together the diverse harms and see their true scope. | ||
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Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | ||
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| + | == British Enclosures were an early Cultural Genocide == | ||
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| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#Parliamentary_enclosure_and_open_fields The 18th and 19th century Parliamentary enclosures in Britain] dispossessed an entire class of independent farmers, forcing them into wage labor for the new owners of enclosed land and into factory labor. This destroyed an entire culture of independent farming in the lowest classes. This does not yet seem to be recognized as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide cultural genocide], but all the elements are there. Search these for "cultural" and "enclosure": | ||
| + | * [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248982744_Cultural_Genocide_and_The_Rhetoric_of_Sustainable_Mining_in_East_India Cultural Genocide and The Rhetoric of Sustainable Mining in East India] | ||
| + | * [http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23005/1/RIS%20version%20Crook%20et%20al.%20--%20Ecocide%20Genocide%20Capitalism%20and%20Colonialism.pdf Ecocide, Genocide, Capitalism and Colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments] | ||
| + | * [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2017.1397631 Ecocide, Genocide And The Disregard Of Alternative Life-systems], Tim Lindgren | ||
== Civic Fundamentalism == | == Civic Fundamentalism == | ||
