Uncounted slow-violence casualties skew how wars are remembered and planned

Evidence

The representational bias against slow violence has, furthermore, a critically dangerous impact on what counts as a casualty in the first place. Casualties of slow violence—human and environmental—are the casualties most likely not to be seen, not to be counted. Casualties of slow violence become light-weight, disposable casualties, with dire consequences for the ways wars are remembered, which in turn has dire consequences for the projected casualties from future wars. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 44

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fictional clustering of scattered disasters counters the dissociation of dispersed slow violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 174; Counting war dead fails to capture ecological-time casualties like genetic damage — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 626; Labels like ‘genocide’ actively shape perceptions and memory of violent events — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 281 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Counting war dead fails to capture ecological-time casualties like genetic damage #exemplifies (0.87) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 626
• Fictional clustering of scattered disasters counters the dissociation of dispersed slow violence #expands (0.82) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 174
• Technologies promising shorter wars can extend violence across ecological time #exemplifies (0.80) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 624
• Labels like ‘genocide’ actively shape perceptions and memory of violent events #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 281