03278cam a2200409 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000310009002000280012104000860014905000240023508200120025910000230027124500690029426400540036330000470041733600200046433700160048433800190050050400510051950506070057052012700117765000620244765000480250965000270255765000360258465000330262065000350265365000280268865000180271665000200273465000320275465000400278665000420282616551216pucpr20181106120827.0181106s2011    maua     b    001 0 eng    a  2010049797  a9780674049307 (alk. paper)  a0674049306 (alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCPdBWXdNLGGCdCDXdFXNdNSBdUKMGBdMIXdDLCbspaerda00aPR9080.5b.N59 201100a820.9361 aNixon, Rob,d1954-10aSlow violence and the environmentalism of the poor /cRob Nixon.  aCambridge, MA :bHarvard University Press,c2011.  axiii, 353 pages :billustrations ;c25 cm.  2rdacontentbtxt  2rdamediabn  2rdacarrierbnc  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aSlow violence, neoliberalism and the environmental picaresque -- Fast forward fossil: petro-despotism and the resource curse -- Pipedreams: Ken Saro-wiwa, environmental justice, and micro-minority rights -- Slow violence, gender and the environmentalism of the poor -- Unimagined communities : megadams, monumental modernity, and developmental refugees -- Strangers in the eco-village: race, tourism, and environmental time -- Ecologies of the aftermath: precision warfare and slow violence -- Environmentalism, postcolonialism, and American studies -- Scenes from the seabed and the future of dissent.  aThe 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, the author 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 this book the author 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 illuminating the strategies these writer/activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, he invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time. 0aCommonwealth literature (English)xHistory and criticism. 0aAmerican literaturexHistory and criticism. 0aEcology in literature. 0aEnvironmentalism in literature. 0aHuman ecology in literature. 0aPostcolonialism in literature. 0aColonies in literature. 0aEcocriticism. 0aHuman security. 0aPoorzDeveloping countries. 0aImperialismxEnvironmental aspects. 0aGlobalizationxEnvironmental aspects.