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101123s2011 maua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2010049797 |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
015748410 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674049307 (alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0674049306 (alk. paper) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)ocn676725411 |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PR9080.5 |
| Item number |
.N59 2011 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
820.9/36 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
18.07 |
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bcl |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Nixon, Rob, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1954- |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16830 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Rob Nixon. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cambridge, Mass. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 353 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Slow 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Commonwealth literature (English) |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16831 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
American literature |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16832 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ecology in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
12508 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Environmentalism in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16833 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human ecology in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16834 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Postcolonialism in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16835 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Colonies in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
10767 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ecocriticism. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16836 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human security. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16837 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Poor |
| Geographic subdivision |
Developing countries. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16838 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Imperialism |
| General subdivision |
Environmental aspects. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16839 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Globalization |
| General subdivision |
Environmental aspects. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16840 |
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20 |
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Non Fiction |
| Suppress in OPAC |
Do not suppress in OPAC |