Capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced

Evidence

Writer-activists may thereby help expose injustices arising from the global freedom of movement afforded powerful corporations and the Bretton Woods institutions, while swathes of humanity are so ecologically undermined that they are abandoned to the plight of the stationary displaced. Whether as part-instigators or as amplifiers, writer-activists can strive to advance the causes of those who confront turbo-capitalism’s assaults on the resources that shape their survival. In confrontations between such typically unequal forces, determined hope is mixed with what John Berger, in the spirit of Antonio Gramsci, has called “undefeated despair.” — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 114

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘stationary displaced’ concept—displacement without physical movement—directly extends chapter 4’s claim that land can lose life-sustaining character while people stay put. — connects to: Free trade treaties free capital flows while criminalizing the displaced people they create — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1409; Displacement can occur without physical movement when land loses its life-sustaining character — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 58; Financialization responds to worker and anti-colonial resistance by making capital more mobile — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 501 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• States free capital mobility while restricting the movement of racialized people #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142
• Capital precedes and shapes resistance rather than resistance driving capital #contradicts (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 923
• Neoliberal ‘freedom’ prioritized cross-border capital mobility over domestic welfare. #qualifies (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 423
• Financialization responds to worker and anti-colonial resistance by making capital more mobile #contradicts (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 501
• Neoliberal capitalism has turned permanent migration into impermanent transnational subcontracting #contradicts (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 25
• Nomadic belonging-in-motion and oil-age rootlessness are opposites #corroborates (0.72) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 207
• Postmodern nomadism mirrors how multinational capital disavows its origins #expands (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 219