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050	0	0	_aPR9080.5 _b.N59 2011
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084			_a18.07 _2bcl
100	1		_aNixon, Rob, _d1954- _916830
245	1	0	_aSlow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / _cRob Nixon.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c2011.
300			_axiii, 353 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aCommonwealth literature (English) _xHistory and criticism. _916831
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism. _916832
650		0	_aEcology in literature. _912508
650		0	_aEnvironmentalism in literature. _916833
650		0	_aHuman ecology in literature. _916834
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _916835
650		0	_aColonies in literature. _910767
650		0	_aEcocriticism. _916836
650		0	_aHuman security. _916837
650		0	_aPoor _zDeveloping countries. _916838
650		0	_aImperialism _xEnvironmental aspects. _916839
650		0	_aGlobalization _xEnvironmental aspects. _916840
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955			_brg12 2010-11-23 _crg12 2010-11-23 (telework)/rg13; email to publisher (2010-11-29); _axe09 2011-10-06 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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