Displacement can occur without physical movement when land loses its life-sustaining character

Evidence

What I wish to stress here, then, are not just those communities that are involuntarily (and often militarily) relocated to less hospitable environs, but also those affected by what I call displacement without moving. In other words, I want to propose a more radical notion of displacement, one that, instead of referring solely to the movement of people from their places of belonging, refers rather to the loss of the land and resources beneath them, a loss that leaves communities stranded in a place stripped of the very characteristics that made it inhabitable. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 58

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘displacement without moving,’ possibly Nixon’s most field-altering concept from this chapter.
• XREF: Directly serves the land/place thread of Eco-Justice and settler-colonial critique: dispossession as resource loss rather than relocation. — connects to: Physical resistance only shrunk, not stopped, forced flooding of Tuscarora land — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 93; Capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 114; Lockean property logic lets oustees be displaced without being dispossessed. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 458 (+2 more)
• FICTION: A community of ‘refugees in place’ whose sustaining landscape is gutted is a powerful setting for eco-fiction.

Broader Connections

• Capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced #corroborates (0.82) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 114
• Lockean property logic lets oustees be displaced without being dispossessed. #responds-to (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 458