Tag: environmental crisis
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Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature book by Erden El
It has been approximately nine years since Rob Nixon coined the term ‘slow violence’ to express the slow but deadly changes in the environment which cause the suffering of the poor. These environmental catastrophes take place so gradually and out of sight that they are often ignored. While Nixon dealt with the issues of slow…
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Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” University of Graz,Austria
Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” International Conference to be held at the University of Graz, Austria, 8-10 June 2017 The aim of this conference is to underline the specific relevance of literature and of literary studies for environmental and ecological concerns. As literature has addressed environmental issues in the past decades, and…
