Webb29 mars 2024 · Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor is constructed on a series of mediations on different books or literary genres all focused … WebbThe 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 …
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Webb14 juni 2011 · Using the innovative concept of “slow violence” to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the … Webb11 mars 2013 · Nixon’s Slow Violence is the first book in environmental literary studies to explore the connection between natural resource extraction and petro-imperialism… Slow Violence eschews dense prose and indecipherable academic jargon for the rigorous, clear writing of someone with the mind of a critic and the heart of a humanist. ryotmx
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WebbMay 26th, 2024 - notes on slow violence by rob nixon posted on july 6 2024 july 19 2024 by spatialhuman6 perhaps it is because of rob nixon s background in environmental justice and the humanities that influenced him to explore what he terms slow violence through rethinking the political imaginative and theoretical dimensions of this form of ... WebbSlow violence, which Rob Nixon defines as “violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, […] is dispersed across time and space, [and is] an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all” (2011, p. 2). For example, a pipeline explosion gets immediate media coverage and attention Webb29 mars 2024 · Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor is constructed on a series of mediations on different books or literary genres all focused on environmental degradation and the people caught in its wake. ryota that time i got reincarnated as a slime