The Slow Violence. Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the lethality of many environmental crises in contrast with the sensational spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. AN END TO THE SLOW VIOLENCE OF CREATIVE PLACEMAKING AND GENTRIFICATION.
In many ways artistic practice operates in a different way and faces different expectations. One example might be the John Henryism effect which BBC Future has. In his book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Robert Nixon explains the concept of slow violence as.
Refugees are suffering from an invisible brutality that is reminiscent of Nixons environmental concept of slow violence.
Slow violence evades boundaries and stretches across time insidiously subjecting people to daily struggles and added traumas. In many ways artistic practice operates in a different way and faces different expectations. Over a lifespan people living in conflict-affected areas can be exposed to multiple psychological adversities that are either directly experienced witnessed or anticipated as the climate crisis deepens. Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the lethality of many environmental crises in contrast with the sensational spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today.