Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Format:Paperback With a love for adventure

With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies

Drawing on years of archival research and field trials in Colonial Williamsburg’s gardens in Williamsburg

eliminating the need to approach the tree directly

85 colour maps make it easy to locate more than 70% of Colombia’s species

The contributors investigate individuality and its relationship to evolution and the specific concept of organism

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Format:Paperback With a love for adventureThe 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,