Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / Rob Nixon.
2011
PR9080.5 .N59 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / Rob Nixon.
Author
Nixon, Rob, 1954-
ISBN
9780674049307 (alk. paper)
0674049306 (alk. paper)
0674049306 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 353 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PR9080.5 .N59 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/36
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, the author 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 this book the author 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 illuminating the strategies these writer/activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, he invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Slow violence, neoliberalism and the environmental picaresque
Fast forward fossil : petro-despotism and the resource curse
Pipedreams : Ken Saro-wiwa, environmental justice, and micro-minority rights
Slow violence, gender and the environmentalism of the poor
Unimagined communities : megadams, monumental modernity, and developmental refugees
Strangers in the eco-village : race, tourism, and environmental amnesia
Ecologies of the aftermath : precision warfare and slow violence
Environmentalism, postcolonialism, and American studies
Epilogue : scenes from the seabed.
Slow violence, neoliberalism and the environmental picaresque
Fast forward fossil : petro-despotism and the resource curse
Pipedreams : Ken Saro-wiwa, environmental justice, and micro-minority rights
Slow violence, gender and the environmentalism of the poor
Unimagined communities : megadams, monumental modernity, and developmental refugees
Strangers in the eco-village : race, tourism, and environmental amnesia
Ecologies of the aftermath : precision warfare and slow violence
Environmentalism, postcolonialism, and American studies
Epilogue : scenes from the seabed.