Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sörlin, Sverker

Titel

Environmental Humanities: Why Should Biologists Interested in the Environment Take the Humanities Seriously?

Ist Teil von

• Bioscience, 2012-09, Vol.62 (9), p.788-789

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: University of California Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]despite all our efforts, most indicators of our future point in the wrong direction. Literary scholar Rob Nixon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that a "slow violence" (part of the title of his 2011 book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor) plagues the poorest people on Earth, who shoulder a disproportionate share of the burden when the rich outsource their ecological footprint-dumping waste, axing forests, or relocating dangerous workplaces.