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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 353 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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, 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,...
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