Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / Rob Nixon.

Main entry:

Nixon, Rob, 1954- author.

Title & Author:

Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / Rob Nixon.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Description:

xiii, 353 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Epilogue: Scenes from the seabed and the future of dissent.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

Here, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. He exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing.

ISBN:

9780674072343 (pbk.)
0674072340 (pbk.)

Subject:

Commonwealth literature (English) History and criticism.
American literature History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Human security.
Poor Developing countries.
Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) Histoire et critique.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Écologie humaine dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Écocritique.
Sécurité humaine.
American literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Poor.
Environmental justice.
Developing countries.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292644
Call No.: BIB 237026
Notes: ENV PR9080.5 .N59 2013
Status: Available

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