Environmental Degradation as Slow Violence
August 30, 2011 Tuesday AT 3PM CT

 
 

Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, refused to let the oil industry's disastrous effect on his community go unnoticed. He's just one voice showcased in Rob Nixon's new book urging us to see environmental degradation as a kind of slow violence affecting the poorest in our communities.



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  • Rob Nixon, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, writer, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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