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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.

Hardcover:

9780674049307 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 14, 2011, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly.

Paperback:

9780674072343 | Gld edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 11, 2013), cover price $21.00

Explores the societies that have pinned hopes for wealth on the feathers and meat of the ostrich, from South Africa's Karoo Desert to the modern American west, and discusses the passions and politics surrounding the bird.

Hardcover:

9780312245405 | 1 edition (Picador USA, March 1, 2000), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Explores the societies that have pinned hopes for wealth on the feathers and meat of the ostrich, from South Africa's Karoo Desert to the modern American west, and discusses the passions and politics surrounding the bird.

Paperback:

9780312270124, titled "Dreambirds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food and Fortune" | Picador USA, March 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Explores the societies that have pinned hopes for wealth on the feathers and meat of the ostrich, from South Africa's Karoo Desert to the modern American west, and discusses the passions and politics surrounding the bird.

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Product Description: Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood chronicles the enormous social and political changes taking place in South Africa.

Hardcover:

9780415908603 | Routledge, August 1, 1994, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood chronicles the enormous social and political changes taking place in South Africa.

Paperback:

9780415908610 | Routledge, June 1, 1994, cover price $29.95

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Hardcover:

9780195067170 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 27, 1992, cover price $135.00

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