04478nam 2200853Ia 450 991081223600332120200520144314.00-674-24799-X0-674-06119-510.4159/harvard.9780674061194(CKB)2550000000048072(OCoLC)754842110(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491781(SSID)ssj0000541342(PQKBManifestationID)11355559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541342(PQKBWorkID)10492296(PQKB)10722912(MiAaPQ)EBC3300958(DE-B1597)178308(OCoLC)840440259(DE-B1597)9780674061194(Au-PeEL)EBL3300958(CaPaEBR)ebr10491781(EXLCZ)99255000000004807220101123d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSlow violence and the environmentalism of the poor /Rob Nixon1st ed.Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press20111 online resource (371 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-04930-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque --2. Fast-forward Fossil --3. Pipedreams --4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor --5. Unimagined Communities --6. Stranger in the Eco-village --7. Ecologies of the Aftermath --8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies --Epilogue --Notes --Acknowledgments --Index --BackmatterThe 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.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticismAmerican literatureHistory and criticismEcology in literatureEnvironmentalism in literatureHuman ecology in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureColonies in literatureEcocriticismHuman securityPoorDeveloping countriesImperialismEnvironmental aspectsGlobalizationEnvironmental aspectsCommonwealth literature (English)History and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Ecology in literature.Environmentalism in literature.Human ecology in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.Colonies in literature.Ecocriticism.Human security.PoorImperialismEnvironmental aspects.GlobalizationEnvironmental aspects.820.9/36EC 1850rvkNixon Rob1954-532286MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812236003321Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor4066167UNINA