Slow Violence, Nixon

Nicholas Lawrence — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:00:50 GMT

Thanks, Charlotte! Library e-book available here:

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=3300958

Nixon's book has been foundational for environmental humanists thinking through the links between writing and activism, although, as I may have mentioned in class, the irony is that the 'slow violence' of climate breakdown is not so slow anymore. It may be more accurate to call it 'hidden violence' - obscured not just by reason of remoteness from the metropolitan centres, or deliberate camouflaging by polluting agents (although that's certainly true), but because it is systemic, widely distributed and difficult to pin down in terms of singular causal origins. Even so, as with everything to do with the Anthropocene, the notion of what's 'hidden' very much depends on where and who you are.

Slow Violence, Nixon

Charlotte Spear — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:33:59 GMT

To follow on from the conversation about telling the right narrative and thinking about things in a longer context, Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor is interesting to think about this idea of numerous smaller events or moments of 'violence' which all represent a larger issue of imperialism. The text is available through the library I think!

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Slow Violence, Nixon

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