[Free and download] Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
☆ Rob Nixon ☆
| #2063567 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2011-06-14 | 2011-07-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.20 x6.50 x9.40l,1.50 | File Name: 0674049306 | 370 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Eloquence and width|By I. Cuperstein|This is the type of book that we rarely stumble upon. We would not expect a book that exposes the relationship between environmentalism of the poor, environmental writer-activists and a proposed concept of slow violence to be a pleasant, beautiful read. I would expect such a book to be interesting, useful, innovative, but still adept of the||Slow Violence is inspiring, innovative, and passionate. Nixon forces us to confront some of the most urgent issues facing the continued existence of humans on the planet. He re-energizes environmental literature, infusing the field with the transnation
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, be...
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