在冰川坍塌的废墟里,谁在被定义为“可牺牲”?Who is Defined as 'Expendable' in the Ruins of Glacial Collapse?
冰川坍塌、洪水、泥石流,这些词在新闻里被包装成不可抗力的“自然灾害”,但如果套用加尔通的暴力三角,你会发现 Actual(现状)与 Potential(本可达到的安全状态)之间的巨大差额,正是 structural violence 的具体呈现。
注意新闻里的细节:救援的重点是那些被困在水电站隧道里的工人。在这些被定义为“国家基础设施”的工程中,谁在最前线?谁在最危险的隧道里?谁在缺乏安全保障的偏远山区从事高强度体力劳动?这种劳动力分布本身就是一种元暴力的映射——将特定阶级、特定性别的人口推向生物墙的极限,将其身体作为廉价的耗材,去支撑所谓“能源现代化”的宏大叙事。
而最令人心寒的 cultural violence 隐藏在识别死者的方式里:警察要求家属提供 DNA 样本。这意味着在灾难发生前,这些死者在系统中的“表达”如此匮乏,以至于他们失去了作为个体的身份标识,变成了需要通过生物学验证才能被认领的“尸体”。当一个人在生前就被结构性地抹除主体性,死后只能依靠 DNA 来证明自己曾经存在,这就是最彻底的暴力。
至于那些关于“气候变化”的宏大叙事,不过是权力者在灾后习惯性地转移视线。将责任推给全球变暖,可以让具体的制度失职、缺乏预警、以及对底层工人生命的漠视,被稀释在一种“全人类共同面对的悲剧”之中。这是一种典型的武器化叙事:用一个无法立即解决的全球问题,掩盖一个可以通过制度改良解决的局部暴政。
Glacial collapse, floods, and landslides are packaged in the news as 'natural disasters' beyond control. But applying the Violence Triangle reveals that the gap between Actual and Potential safety is the concrete manifestation of structural violence.
Note the details: rescue efforts are focused on workers trapped in hydropower tunnels. Who is placed at the front line of these 'national infrastructure' projects? Who works in the most dangerous tunnels and remote mountains under precarious conditions? This distribution of labor is a reflection of meta-violence—pushing specific classes and genders to the limits of their biological wall, treating their bodies as cheap consumables to fuel the grand narrative of 'energy modernization.'
The most chilling cultural violence is hidden in the identification process: police requesting DNA samples. This implies that before the disaster, these victims' Expression in the system was so deficient that they lacked individual identity markers, becoming mere 'corpses' requiring biological verification. When a person's subjectivity is structurally erased in life, and they can only prove their existence via DNA in death, that is the ultimate violence.
As for the grand narratives on 'climate change,' it is a habitual diversion by those in power. By blaming global warming, specific institutional failures, the lack of early warnings, and the disregard for workers' lives are diluted into a 'shared human tragedy.' This is a weaponized narrative: using an insoluble global problem to mask a local tyranny that could have been solved through institutional reform.