The Slow Violence. Rob Nixon Slow violence is a term coined by Rob Nixon in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism and of the Poor Harvard University Press 2011 to describe the attritional wake of environmental devastation or pollution. It exists in a space that allows us to seek alternative methods and highlight that which escapes current attention economies.
The slow violence that threatens the Marshall Islands threatens us all. Humanities and environment scholar Rob Nixon has used the concept of slow violence to describe how deadly harms can accumulate and have their impacts felt over years or decades rather than. Rob Nixon in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor describes slow violence as a.
South Africas obesity and diabetes epidemics today can be traced to an accumulation of violence over time starting on the early sugar plantations of colonial Natal.
The world faces many crises. It exists in a space that allows us to seek alternative methods and highlight that which escapes current attention economies. Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the lethality of many environmental crises in contrast with the sensational spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. The slow violence of environmental degradation.