Environmental injustice persists because corporate power is incorporeal and beyond imagination

Evidence

In all her writing, Roy teases out the relationship between distance and transgressive intimacies that cross chasms of caste, class, gender, nation, region, and religion. Her concern with the abstracting of life by distance reflects her concern with hierarchies of visibility: the seen and the unseen, the tangible and the untouchable. If Roy writes against distance in many forms, one crucial variant is the distance between the incorporeality of corporate power and its convulsive, material effects. This gap poses particular challenges for the environmental justice movement, hence her call for writerswho can translate cash-flow chards and boardroom speeches into real stories about real people with real lives. Stories about what it’s like to lose your home, your land, your dignity, your past, and your future to an invisible force. To someone or something you can’t see. You can’t hate. You can’t even imagine. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 475

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on ch4’s idea that displacement can occur without movement when land loses life-sustaining character, extending it to losing dignity, past, and future. — connects to: Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1981; Power struggles within capitalism are simultaneously struggles over imagining the future; Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 377 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination #complicates (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1981
• Finance capitalism’s power struggles are fundamentally contests over speculative imagination #corroborates (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 148
• Power struggles within capitalism are simultaneously struggles over imagining the future #responds-to (0.75)
• Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt #expands (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 377
• Corporate ideologies can make harming others seem appropriate #responds-to (0.72)
• Corporate environments themselves generate unethical behavior beyond individual psychopathology #expands (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 374