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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Slow violence"”.
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Educating for the ‘Anthropocene’: The Meaning of Politics in an Age of Slow Violence
… environmental activism in spaces affected by the slow violence of environmental degradation, characteristic of the current high ‘Anthropocene’ era. By conducting research at government schools and in their surrounding communities in Pashulok, India, and South Durban, South Africa, this study …
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On ‘dirty’ rats, ‘dirty’ spaces and slow violence in Site C, Khayelitsha: an interdisciplinary ethnography of the everyday, living in a rat-infested area
… reflecting the realities of inequality and slow violence in the lives of people residing in Site C. To illustrate the nuances related to inequality and slow violence, this dissertation analyses the manner in which rats are controlled in the city of Cape Town and by whom, the polluted river …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… relationships with political and environmental slow violence in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s concept “slow violence,” Patricia Fumerton’s book on vagrancy in sixteenth …
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'Insidious Pollen': Literature and Industrial Toxicity, 1935-Present
… 2011, Rob Nixon influentially coined the term ‘slow violence’ to describe ‘a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all’. Nixon’s term has since helped to shape an interdisciplinary discourse …
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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824
… involve processes of what Rob Nixon has called “slow violence,” a violence often culminating in the spectacular erasure of bodies. In turn, I hope to contribute to a fuller understanding of what it means to live firmly emplaced in the environment in which we dwell.
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The Invisible Story: Underground Health Narratives of Women in Mining
… most analytical, it utilises Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ by carefully charting the challenges that a female mineworker faces; having to provide for her family even in the most difficult situations, and sometimes at the expense of her own health. Hence, ‘women in mining’ are situated in a …
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'The end of the world as we know it': imagining new possibilities for the Anthropocene through a study of Nigerian Africanfuturism
… reading informed by Rob Nixon's notion of “slow violence” to re-frame the urgency of climate change within the context of postcolonial Nigeria. Reading beyond representations of the current environmental crisis through genres such as petro-fiction, I concentrate on Tade Thompson's Wormwood …
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VERS UNE ECOCRITIQUE POSTCOLONIALE AFRICAINE: L’ENVIRONNEMENT DANS LES LITTERATURES AFRICAINES DE LANGUE FRANÇAISE
… involving postcolonial realities, for instance 'slow violence' and 'the environmentalism of the poor' theorized by Rob Nixon, to show the effects (sometimes invisible and yet perceptible) of environmental degradation and in particular of ecological colonialism on the African environment and the …
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Precarity and Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of the African Child in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers
… of precarity is foregrounded in relation to the slow violence perpetuated by legacies of extractivist colonialism and neo-colonialism, both historical and current. The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) by Zimbabwean writer, Valerie Tagwira, How Beautiful We Were (2021) by Cameroonian-American writer, …
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Reclaiming the estranged : imagining an architecture of excess
… habitual estrangement of our waste has induced "slow violence" on our landscapes at large (Nixon 2). This estrangement also occurs at the scale of our built environment. Architects are typically situated downstream of material production; this ultimately confines design to values held by the …
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The Wall: Exploring inequality, waste and hope in Vrygrond and the adjacent Capricorn Business Park (Cape Town, SA)
… (2009) and Scales (2017) ; it enacts the slow violence described by Nixon (2011) and the waste siege described by Stamatopoulou-Robbins (2020) in Palestine. The study demonstrates the difficulties of crossing the wall between the formal and informal economy in contemporary South Africa and …
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How has environmental violence been experienced during the Cape Town water crisis using the Newlands Spring as a case-study
… water crisis, there have been cases of civil violence. From protests at the greater Cape Town scale to physical altercations witnessed at Newlands Spring, the results of the present study demonstrate that mass violent conflict is not a far-off consequence of water scarcity. This research aimed …
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Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom
… two poles, this dissertation traces a process of slow violence by which monetary infrastructures take root and assume their moral force. It provides a historically materialist analysis of the peculiar development of monetary forms as raw capacities available and at hand to restructure social …
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“Trans-ing: a Transwoman’s Story Beyond Transnormative Life Writing”
… in the lives of transwomen, and the theory of slow violence to highlight how the challenges faced by transwomen are systemic yet intimate, ongoing yet dramatically changeable at every stage of our lives. The creative-experiential accounts in this dissertation are a deliberate part of my …
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A new materialist exploration of Sexual and Gender Minorities asylum seekers and refugees’ experiences of the UK’s asylum process
… assemblage of necropolitics (Mbembe, 2013), slow death (Berlant, 2007) and slow violence (Nixon, 2011) as lenses to explore participants’ asylum migratory experiences. Assemblage theory acknowledges that multiple bodies- both animate and inanimate interact and merge at specific points to …
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Conflict transformation education : a strategy to resolve schools and community violence in the Factreton area, Western Cape
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration: Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
This thesis examines ‘improvement’ of wetland commons in early modern England as a contested process of rapid environmental change. As a flagship project of agrarian improvement, drainage sought to alchemise pastoral fen commons into arable enclosed terra firma and promised manifold benefits for …