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... infrastructure slow violence ecology extraction Anthropocene ...

... waste governance slow violence wicked problem infrastructure ...

... uranium slow violence atomic Susanne Kriemann Wilhelm Röntgen ...

... Chapter 5 explores how uranium pushes photography beyond that which is visible to the human eye. Centering on the problem of slow violence, the argument in this chapter is twofold. First, experiments by Niépce de Saint-Victor, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Henri Becquerel show that photography is central...

... the longer it was ignored. Mine wastes in South Africa epitomize and fuel the slow violence of Anthropocene predicaments that plague the planet. The chapter presents the deep geological and human history of this area, readying the reader for the rest of the book. waste governance slow violence...

... This chapter takes up Derek Walcott’s challenging definition of colonialism as the rot that remains when the men are gone to reckon with what endures in tangible and intangible forms. The focus is less on recognized ruins than on processes of ongoing ruination. It asks how the “slow violence...

... slow violence). From this meditation, it moves into an analysis of texts (by Sonia Sotomayor, Tato Laviera, Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga, and ire'ne lara silva) that simultaneously critique the social conditions that give rise to diabetes caseloads in Latinx communities and that reject the stigma...

... to go beyond merely witnessing slow violence. I expand on how this film highlights the limits of form while also calling attention to process and materiality, as is often the case in Siopis’s paintings. The film’s preference for suggestion rather than depiction is iterative on the visual, audio...

... how the “slow violence” of imperial formations is dislodged from the politics that produced it, the toxic consequences of imperial debris and duress on matter and mind. It asks what is left and what people are left with that make up not a finite colonial past but a “colonial presence.” Debris...

... the making and unmaking of black/ened life within the death worlds of the sugarcane plantation and the coal mine, two geographical spaces indicative of slow death. The queer aesthetic of slow death brings time to a halt as an urgent call to deal with the colonial apartheid past and the ongoing violence...

... This chapter argues that ongoing armed violence and narcotrafficking in Northeast India can be better understood by analyzing the continued colonization of Indigenous lands through exploitation and militarization. Fractured by colonial borders and state intrusion, Indigenous Peoples in Northeast...

... then discuss suicide as an example of how indentured servants’ will was read in the archive in ways that routinized violence and overestimated the difference between enslaved and contractual labor. I critically imagine the will of these indentured servants through a close reading of Agnes Sam’s short story...

... The chapter opens with a lengthy list of deaths of characters from earlier parts of the book—many from illness, some from violence, few of them natural. Vena and Thomas separate in Eugene, she and the kids in one house, Thomas and some band members in another. Thomas shaves off his signature...

... to the violence of reproductive and sexual orders for poor and marginalized people. Feminists argue that sexual and reproductive freedom means being able to bring children, whether one’s own or those of others, to robust adulthood in health and safety in intact communities. Too often the policies of population...

... of characters from earlier parts of the book—many from illness, some from violence, few of them natural. Vena and Thomas separate in Eugene, she and the kids in one house, Thomas and some band members in another. Thomas shaves off his signature dreadlocks, triggering false speculation that he too is dying...