Tag: Environmental

  • Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature book by Erden El

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    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…

    Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature book by Erden El

  • CFP: Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability

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     CFP-Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability Dear Colleagues, In January 2019, the EAT-Lancet commission released a two-year study on “Food in the Anthropocene,” arguing that “civilization is in crisis,” and that the urgent need for both healthy diets and balanced planetary resources not come at the expense of accelerating trends which…

    CFP: Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability