Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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缓慢暴力与穷人的环保主义
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2011
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Rob Nixon
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气候变化、有毒物质漂移、森林砍伐、石油泄漏和战争的环境后果所造成的暴力是逐渐发生的，而且往往是无形的。罗伯·尼克松用“缓慢暴力”这一创新概念来描述这些威胁，重点是我们对许多环境危机的消耗性致命性的忽视，与当今推动公共行动主义的耸人听闻的、由斗争驱动的信息形成对比。缓慢的暴力，因为它很容易被一个强硬的资本主义所忽视，加剧了生态系统和穷人的脆弱性，被剥夺了权力，往往被迫流离失所，同时助长了因绝望而产生的社会冲突，因为维持生命的条件受到侵蚀。在这本范围非凡的书中，尼克松考察了一群与全球南方穷人环保主义有关的作家兼活动家。通过从这种跨国的角度来探讨环境正义文学，他揭示了主导环境写作的国家和地方框架的局限性。尼克松巧妙地阐明了这些作家兼活动家为突出环境紧急情况而采取的策略，邀请他的读者参与我们这个时代最紧迫的挑战。
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, Rob Nixon 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 a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon 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 skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.