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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 564–570.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ben Perkins [email protected] © 2022 Ben Perkins 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Ten years ago, Rob Nixon introduced the idea of “slow violence,” and his idea has since become influential among...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 86–106.
Published: 01 May 2018
... bodily and environmental malaise exposes the slow violence of war and challenges the liberal idea of war as a temporary event and paroxysm of violence. Taking southern Lebanese accounts seriously reveals how the liberal idea of war keeps Israeli weapons, toxic environments, and embodied pathologies...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of environmental change that inflict ‘slow violence’ on vulnerable human (and non-human) populations. Nixon argues that a lack of “arresting stories, images and symbols” reduces the visibility of gradual problems such as biodiversity loss, climate change and chemical pollution in cultural imaginations...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2023
... engagement with culture and religion. The article pursues one implication of this study by suggesting an amendment to the concept of “slow violence”: environmental injustice is better theorized as “slow sacrifice”—a political ecology of life and death, the goal of which is to concentrate death in some places...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... earth mining, the slow violence of black lung disease, the factory work, the digital consumption practices—that have propelled and intensified the country’s stupendous development as well as its ecological challenges. We find new work on eco-media and media materialism most productive, as it sheds light...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in mainstream medical discourses. Through the blend of environmental memoir, embodied knowledge, activist campaigns, and medical literature, the article exposes the accumulation of environmental, medical, ableist, misogynist, and capitalist slow violence that living with endometriosis brings about. While...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 391–413.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Yota Batsaki Abstract Anselm Kiefer’s monumental Secret of the Ferns (2007) redirects the artist’s apocalyptic sensibility, honed in response to the Holocaust, to the slow violence of extinction. The installation adopts a foundational practice of early modern natural history: the herbarium’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 426–432.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., and settler-colonial concepts, sets of practices and regulatory frameworks that are becoming increasingly common within planning law. 5 We argue below that the concept of “slow violence” helps to explain the cumulative destruction enabled by biodiversity offsetting practices. 6 More specifically, legal...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... This work contributes to research on the sociocultural significance of “ruination,” “active debris,” “rogue infrastructure,” and related forms of “slow violence.” 5 Bomb ecologies are a product of slow, ongoing military wasting. The long-term ecological impact of war constitutes a further, implied...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 287–290.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Review 44 (2008); Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011). 13 Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World 1st ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 2008). 14 Libby Robin. “The End of the Environment...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., and economies. Copyright © 2017 Sarah Besky 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). slow violence shadow place landslides waste human-animal relations hill stations South Asia The town of Darjeeling, in the Himalayan...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 288–295.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., (re)-Making Treaties.” 7. van Dooren, Flight Ways, 8 . 8. Rose, van Dooren and Chrulew, “Telling Extinction Stories,” 5 . 9. In particular, the work of Rob Nixon and his conception of “slow violence” as violence that often exceeds generations and involves subtle, yet chronic...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 496–500.
Published: 01 November 2020
... : Verso Books , 2015 . Nixon Rob . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 . O’Gorman Emily , van Dooren Thom , Münster Ursula , Adamson Joni , Mauch Christof , Sörlin Sverker , Armiero...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 213–225.
Published: 01 May 2018
... provided a key register through which the environmental humanities have explored such violence: “Slow violence,” in his view, is a “violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space.” 35 He has argued that we ought to engage with this different notion of violence: “a violence...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2017
...: Maximizing Anthopology .” In Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Knowledge , edited by Strauss Sarah , Rupp Stephanie , and Love Thomas , 317 – 23 . Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast , 2013 . Nixon Rob . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor . Cambridge, MA...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 52–64.
Published: 01 November 2023
... truncated. In Rob Nixon’s influential text on slow violence and environmental change, he openly worries about the “temporal projections of disaster [that] are routinely foreshortened.” 15 Climate change cannot be represented through a singular event or spectacle; it requires sustained attention over time...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... as toxic: racism, settler-colonial violence, corporate greed, militarism, and toxic masculinities. The important question is who gets to live, play, thrive, and survive, and who gets to suffer and die from the “slow violence” 7 of toxic compounds and socioeconomic vulnerability. With toxic...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 39–61.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of farmlands but rather by the persistence of life in Sugiyama’s rice paddies. I suggest that, coeval with this slow violence, LiFu has carved out pertinent processes to hold novel technologies, humans, and the damaged ecology together, orienting the future(s) toward alternative material and temporal relations...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 257–272.
Published: 01 May 2018
... is, after all, the integrity of the nation. What we see, then, is a depiction of what Rob Nixon has termed slow violence—harm whose full extent is displaced in time, manifesting itself at temporal scales that fan out well beyond the time frame in which the action took place: “By slow violence I mean...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 142–161.
Published: 01 July 2023
... “The Less Selfish Gene” is a helpfully unambiguous statement of the environmental humanities’ ingrained anti-neoliberalism. While Nixon’s influential 2011 book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor homed in on indigent resistance brewing in “the underbelly of neoliberal globalization...
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