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Nixon forces us to confront some of the most urgent issues facing the continued existence of humans on the planet. Nixons work has been crucial to articulating the conjunction as well as the fault lines between postcolonial studies and ecocriticism. Slow violence and the environmentalism of poor rob nixon. Wolfe institute for the humanities, in cooperation with the robert l. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book.
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