Postindustrial and postconflict labels erase harms that continue across generations

Evidence

For if the past of slow violence is never past, so too the post is never fully post: industrial particulates and effluents live on in the environmental elements we inhabit and in our very bodies, which epidemiologically and ecologically are never our simple contemporaries. Something similar applies to so-called postconflict societies whose leaders may annually commemorate, as marked on the calendar, the official cessation of hostilities, while ongoing intergenerational slow violence (inflicted by, say, unexploded landmines or carcinogens from an arms dump) may continue hostilities by other means. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 32

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the ‘post’ critique in postcolonial studies (Appiah) invoked just above, and connects to the polyad’s colonial strand. — connects to: Lynching inflicts harms that descend across generations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 914; Historical trauma transmits across generations through grief and disrupted cultural transmission — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10692; Loss of historical memory harms groups the way amnesia harms individuals — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1821 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Extends the core definition of slow violence to temporal brackets like postconflict and postindustrial.

Broader Connections

• Lynching inflicts harms that descend across generations #exemplifies (0.90) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 914
• Historical trauma transmits across generations through grief and disrupted cultural transmission #exemplifies (0.82) — , The Rod and the Child, 10692
• Loss of historical memory harms groups the way amnesia harms individuals #corroborates (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1821