Edited by Shannon O’Lear, Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, US

'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.'

• Contents:1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1Shannon O’Lear2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slowobservation in Louisiana 21Thom Davies3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities atthe intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41Ruth Trumble4 Complicating the role of sight: photographicmethods and visibility in slow violence research 57John Paul Henry5 Tourism development as slow violence:dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, MeganButler and Laura Aileen Sauls6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climatechange and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89Daniel Abrahams7 Enduring infrastructure 107Kimberley Anh Thomas8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123Sheridan Bartlett9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring andcompassion, deconstructing the borderlands ofreconciliation 137Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives inKyrgyzstan 155Michele E. Commercio11 When rednecks became meth heads: culturalviolence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173Aaron H. Gilbreath12 The slow violence of law and order: governingthrough crime 189Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205Peter Vujakovic14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathwayson geographies of slow violence 225Shannon O’LearIndex 233

Edited by Shannon O’Lear, Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, US

'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.'

• Contents:1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1Shannon O’Lear2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slowobservation in Louisiana 21Thom Davies3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities atthe intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41Ruth Trumble4 Complicating the role of sight: photographicmethods and visibility in slow violence research 57John Paul Henry5 Tourism development as slow violence:dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, MeganButler and Laura Aileen Sauls6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climatechange and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89Daniel Abrahams7 Enduring infrastructure 107Kimberley Anh Thomas8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123Sheridan Bartlett9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring andcompassion, deconstructing the borderlands ofreconciliation 137Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives inKyrgyzstan 155Michele E. Commercio11 When rednecks became meth heads: culturalviolence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173Aaron H. Gilbreath12 The slow violence of law and order: governingthrough crime 189Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205Peter Vujakovic14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathwayson geographies of slow violence 225Shannon O’LearIndex 233

Edited by Shannon O’Lear, Professor, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, US

'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.'

• Contents:1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1Shannon O’Lear2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slowobservation in Louisiana 21Thom Davies3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities atthe intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41Ruth Trumble4 Complicating the role of sight: photographicmethods and visibility in slow violence research 57John Paul Henry5 Tourism development as slow violence:dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, MeganButler and Laura Aileen Sauls6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climatechange and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89Daniel Abrahams7 Enduring infrastructure 107Kimberley Anh Thomas8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123Sheridan Bartlett9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring andcompassion, deconstructing the borderlands ofreconciliation 137Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives inKyrgyzstan 155Michele E. Commercio11 When rednecks became meth heads: culturalviolence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173Aaron H. Gilbreath12 The slow violence of law and order: governingthrough crime 189Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205Peter Vujakovic14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathwayson geographies of slow violence 225Shannon O’LearIndex 233