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Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor

Title: Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / Rob Nixon.
Author: Nixon, Rob, 1954-
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description

xiii, 353 p.; 25 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 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 amnesia -- Ecologies of the aftermath : precision warfare and slow violence -- Environmentalism, postcolonialism, and American studies -- Epilogue : scenes from the seabed.

Call Number

JFE 12-1771

ISBN

9780674049307 (alk. paper)
0674049306 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2010049797

OCLC

YBP 2010049797

Author

Nixon, Rob, 1954-

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-1771

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