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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Nixon, Rob·2011
DOI 10.4159/harvard.9780674061194
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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.

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  • The living-like-a-local verve that informs contemporary tourist practices is particularly pernicious for cities such as Berlin because of the slow violence with which it undermines the social and economic landscape of residential neighbourhoods.

    “This living-like-a-local verve that informs contemporary tourist practices is particularly pernicious for cities such as Berlin because of the slow violence (Nixon 2011) with which it undermines the social and economic landscape of residential neighbourhoods.”

    From Bin ich ein Berliner? Graffiti as layered public archive and socio-ecological methodology (2019) · cites this paper as Nixon 2011

  • La presencia de los espíritus de quienes sufrieron una mala muerte puede entenderse como otro tipo de violencia: una violencia lenta, de repercusiones pospuestas y destrucción diferida, que amenaza el bienestar de los vivos, los muertos y sus mundos.

    “Toda vez que estos muertos continúan impidiendo que las comunidades retornantes puedan retomar sus proyectos de vida, la presencia de los espíritus de quienes sufrieron una mala muerte puede entenderse como otro tipo de violencia: una violencia lenta (Nixon 2011, 2), de repercusiones pospuestas y destrucción diferida que, aunque menos espectacular que la violencia armada, amenaza el bienestar de”

    From Ecúmene de vivos y muertos: mala muerte y reparaciones territoriales en el bajo atrato (2020) · cites this paper as Nixon 2011, 2

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Authors
Nixon, R.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
2011-12-31
DOI
10.4159/harvard.9780674061194
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