Corporations deploy distancing strategies to wear down environmental justice campaigns

Evidence

Three points are worth underscoring here. First, that international whiteness provides a second shield for national whiteness, a protective dynamic that has profound consequences for the way slow violence has unfolded across the global stage in a neoliberal age. Second, and relatedly, the internal distance between the inviolable body and the vulnerable body is widened by being routed through international circuits of power. Third, implicit in Ndebele’s racial narrative of violation and retribution is the kind of environmental narrative that Sinha’s novel tells, whereby a corporate bastion of white power deploys a battery of distancing strategies (temporal, legalistic, geographical, scientific, and euphemistic) in the longue durée between the initial catastrophe and the aftermath. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 159

Categorization

• XREF: The battery of distancing strategies — temporal, legalistic, geographical, scientific, euphemistic — parallels the slow-noise invisibility mechanics being read in Soundscape and the corporate doubt-manufacture from the book’s own ch8. — connects to: Corporations spent $240 million on environmental advocacy advertising in two years — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 441; Legal delay erodes pollution victims’ claims while benefiting corporations — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 136; Front groups masquerade as grassroots citizens to weaken environmental protections — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2717 (+2 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the visibility-making strand of eco-justice: the writer-activist’s job is to counter exactly these attritional distancing mechanisms.

Broader Connections

• Front groups masquerade as grassroots citizens to weaken environmental protections #corroborates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2717
• Corporations can relocate while pollution-bearing communities cannot #expands (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 302
• Corporations are reframed as a disenfranchised minority deserving rights #corroborates (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 336