Slow War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slow War write by Benjamin Hertwig. This book was released on 2017-08-14. Slow War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Kevin Powers’s "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting." A century after the First World War, Hertwig presents both the personal cost of war in poems such as "Somewhere in Flanders/Afghanistan" and "Food Habits of Coyotes, as Determined by Examination of Stomach Contents," and the potential for healing in unlikely places in "A Poem Is Not Guantánamo Bay." This collection provides no easy answers – Hertwig looks at the war in Afghanistan with the unflinching gaze of a soldier and the sustained attention of a poet. In his accounting of warfare and its difficult aftermath on the homefront, the personal becomes political. While these poems inhabit both experimental and traditional forms, the breakdown of language channels a descent into violence and an ascent into a future that no longer feels certain, where history and trauma are forever intertwined. Hertwig reminds us that remembering war is a political act and that writing about war is a way we remember.
"Old Slow Town"
"Old Slow Town" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Old Slow Town" write by Paul Taylor. This book was released on 2013-10-15. "Old Slow Town" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers interested in American history, Civil War history, or the ethnic history of Detroit will appreciate the full picture of the time period Taylor presents in "Old Slow Town."
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor write by Rob Nixon. This book was released on 2011-06-01. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law
The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law write by Eliana Cusato. This book was released on 2021-09-16. The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unpacks key assumptions about the 'environment', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.
America's Longest Siege
America's Longest Siege - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Longest Siege write by Joseph Kelly. This book was released on 2013-06-27. America's Longest Siege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[A] vivid and engrossing study of slavery in and around one of its trading hubs, Charleston, SC . . . an important contribution to Southern antebellum history.” —Library Journal In America’s Longest Siege, historian Joseph Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and wealth that made Charleston the center of the nationwide debate over slavery and the tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable, America’s Longest Siege offers a new take on the Civil War and the culture that made it inevitable. “Lays bare the decades-long campaign of rationalization and intimidation that revivified and reinforced the institution of slavery and dragged the United States into disunion and civil war . . . this masterful study is a timely and important reminder of the consequences that result when ideological extremists succeed in drowning out the voices of reason.” —Peter Quinn, author of Hour of the Cat
