Slow violence’s layered invisibility makes even sympathetic articulation of joined threats nearly impossible

Evidence

The very difficulty of integrating such conjoined (if unequal) threats is symptomatic of the layered invisibility that defines slow violence. The poor, of course, are hardly restricted to the global South, but they are dramatically, disproportionately concentrated there. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 863

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the constitutive definitional move: slow violence’s invisibility is ‘layered,’ compounding across registers including class geography.
• XREF: connects to: Slow violence differs from structural violence in foregrounding time and change — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 39; Slow violence is marginalized by converging forces of inattention — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 850; The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fictional clustering of scattered disasters counters the dissociation of dispersed slow violence #responds-to (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 174
• The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285