SLOW, STRUCTURAL & ECOLOGICAL VIOLENCE

SLOW, STRUCTURAL & ECOLOGICAL VIOLENCE

CONCEPTUAL SHIFT

VIOLENCE DOES NOT HAVE TO LOOK VIOLENT.

Rob Nixon → Slow Violence: violence that unfolds gradually and invisibly.

FORMS

• environmental destruction;
• toxic exposure;
• extractivism;
• economic exhaustion;
• institutional neglect;
• ecological collapse;
• displacement;
• precarity.

QUESTIONS

How can performance give form to violence that has no spectacular event?

How can duration make invisible violence perceptible?

Can absence, accumulation, repetition or exhaustion represent violence more effectively than shock?

HISTORICAL CONNECTION

Cross-link to:

ECOLOGY, NUCLEAR ANXIETY & ECO-FEMINISM.

SOURCE LIMIT

Do not retrofit ecological violence into CPPM material without evidence. Use this as a conceptual extension of the existing lens.