The Slow Violence. One example might be the John Henryism effect which BBC Future has. This kind of violence is often built into the physical and social structures of society and becomes evident in its impacts on groups of people or ecosystems over time.
In 2011 globally renowned environmental humanities scholar Rob Nixon explained the slow violence of environmental degradation as a delayed destruction made up of a series of long deaths. Slow violence evades boundaries and stretches across time insidiously subjecting people to daily struggles and added traumas. Rob Nixon in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor describes slow violence as a.
What is slow environmental violence.
Slow violence evades boundaries and stretches across time insidiously subjecting people to daily struggles and added traumas. In 2011 globally renowned environmental humanities scholar Rob Nixon explained the slow violence of environmental degradation as a delayed destruction made up of a series of long deaths. Refugees are suffering from an invisible brutality that is reminiscent of Nixons environmental concept of slow violence. If coal mining is allowed to go ahead in the Mabola Protected Environment MPE near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga it will result in a predictable form of environmental violence for local communities.