Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence

Making Social and Environmental Injustice Visible

AvShannon O’Lear

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.Demonstrating a range of research methods and theoretical perspectives, this Research Agenda looks at the topic of slow violence through qualitative fieldwork, document analysis, geospatial technologies and cartographic analysis and representation. Key case studies consider slow violence in the form of social injustice, environmental alteration, and harmful human-environment interactions. The chapters also highlight how physical infrastructure, social and legal practices, places that have experienced armed conflict, and groups of people being labeled or marginalised can foster forms of slow violence.Scholars and students of human geography, particularly those looking at decolonization, environmental and social justice and different geographic methods for research, will find this book to be a beneficial read. It will also be useful for those studying structural harm and indirect violence more widely.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-04
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Elgar Research Agendas
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781788978026

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

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'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.'

Innehållsförteckning

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