On A (Not-So) Global Scale: Dissecting the Spatio-Temporal Complexities of Slow Violence
updated:
Monday, September 1, 2025 - 3:10pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Rob Nixon describes, ‘slow violence’, as “a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space”, one “that is neither spectacular nor instantaneous, but rather incremental and accretive, its calamitous repercussions playing out across a range of temporal scales” (2). This seminal work raised the critical question of the strategic difficulties of representing the impact of such violence, especially as it crossed national, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and even gendered borders.