Cinematic catastrophe overshadows more insidious forms of violence

Evidence

Perhaps to Hagen and others like him, tree planting is conflict resolution lite; it lacks a dramatic, decisive, newsworthy military focus. But Maathai, by insisting that resource bottlenecks impact sustainable security at local, national, and global levels, and by insisting that the environmentalism of the poor is inseparable from distributive justice, has done more than forge a broad political alliance against Kenyan authoritarian rule. Through her testimony and through her movement’s collective example, she has sought to reframe conflict resolution for an age when instant cinematic catastrophe has tended to overshadow violence that is calamitous in more insidious ways. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Central thesis of the book: why media spectacles render slow violence illegible. — connects to: Fictional clustering of scattered disasters counters the dissociation of dispersed slow violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 174; Audiences habituate to violence so that even its rising lethality goes unremarked — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 977; In postmodern cinema, evil becomes an image drained of genuine menace — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 645

Broader Connections

• In postmodern cinema, evil becomes an image drained of genuine menace #corroborates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 645
• Audiences habituate to violence so that even its rising lethality goes unremarked #corroborates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 977