Part One: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon

This book gives me ideas on how to add fiction and novels to an environmental justice and public policy class, choosing from the selections that Nixon deconstructs. However, this semester I have assigned this particular book (an analysis of other books) as a reading for a 300 level class. This is a challenge for students, but they are gaining much vocabulary and the sense of how an ultra-interdisciplinary text works.  We think it would be interesting to sit down with Rob Nixon to listen to him speak because we would not be sure where he would take us in the conversation.  I think the book also helps with how to organize and write our own analysis pieces. My goal for using this book is to find tools that we can use to think about environmental injustice. One of those tools is the element of timing, writer activism, another is neoliberalism, and also the resource curse.

Nixon, R. (2011). Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.