The Slow Violence. News Mining in Mabola. Both environmental pollution and malnutrition are forms of this slow violence.
We face a staggering homelessness crisis. 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. 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.
The slow violence that threatens the Marshall Islands threatens us all.
It exists in a space that allows us to seek alternative methods and highlight that which escapes current attention economies. The Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing measures to contain it have revealed a stark divide between those who have access to adequate nutritious affordable diets and essential nutrition services and those who do not. For if slow violence is typically underrepresented in the media such underrepresentation is exacerbated whenever as typically happens it is the poor who become its frontline victims above all. National Geographic Explorer Arati Kumar-Rao takes her time visiting and observing ecosystems to.