The Slow Violence

The Slow Violence. 27 October 2021 at 901 am. The discipline of art history can be useful for thinking critically about these representational challenges.

Our NHS is in crisis. Its invisible andor side-effect forms. The slow violence that threatens the Marshall Islands threatens us all.

Suffering degradation and pain inflicted upon people and communities by impersonal dispersed forces.

The slow violence of environmental degradation. Under such circumstances slow violence often fuels social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions incrementally rather than suddenly erode. Humanities and environment scholar Rob Nixon has used the concept of slow violence to describe how deadly harms can accumulate and have their impacts felt over years or decades rather than. By slow violence I mean what Rob Nixon calls the long dyings a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all.