Title
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor / Rob Nixon.
ISBN
9780674061194
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (370 p.) : 5 halftones
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674061194 doi
Alternate Call Number
LB 74000
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.936
Summary
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode.In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque
2. Fast-forward Fossil
3. Pipedreams
4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor
5. Unimagined Communities
6. Stranger in the Eco-village
7. Ecologies of the Aftermath
8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Backmatter
