Safundi· 2012Q4
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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This paper introduces the concept of 'slow violence' to describe environmental degradation that is gradual and often invisible, contrasting it with immediate disasters and arguing it disproportionately affects marginalized communities.
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- Introduces 'slow violence' to describe gradual, often invisible environmental degradation.
- Argues slow violence disproportionately affects poor and marginalized communities.
- Contrasts slow violence with immediate, visible environmental disasters.
- Highlights the political and social dimensions of ecological harm.
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Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 9 See DeLoughrey and Handley, Postcolonial Ecologies; Tiffin and Huggan, Postcolonial Ecocriticism; Mukherjee, Postcolonial Environments. 10 Said, Orientalism. 11 See Beck, Risk Society.
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Field: Literature and Literary Theory
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