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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.
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1973 (Hardcover)
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Mentors (Hardcover)
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Yarn (Hardcover)
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1973 (Paperback)
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Yarn (Paperback)
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Run (Paperback)
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The traditional Accounting 'Practice' model is outdated. Your
clients do not want an accountant who is just an order taker. What
they do want is an accounting firm that looks to the future and
provides them with timely advice on what they should be doing now
to improve their businesses and ultimately to help them achieve
their financial and lifestyle goals. If you want to be that firm,
you need to read 'Accounting Practices Don't Add Up' to learn
how.In this book, Rob Nixon reveals how he helps accounting firms
succeed.ABOUT THE AUTHORRob Nixon has been helping accounting firms
achieve massive success since 1994. He is unmatched in his ability
to succinctly deliver what it takes to be a high performing firm.
He has written countless articles and reports on what the
accounting profession needs to do to improve service, increase
margins, offer value added services and build a business where
everyone in it has a better more fulfilling lifestyle.
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Late Imperial Culture (Paperback, New)
E.Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker, Roman de la Campa; Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Caren Kaplan, …
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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to
postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps
crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices
including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and
body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from
those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to
scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited
upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them. A
diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically
informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the
culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a long and complex
history which, in the present epoch, merits its being designated
"late"; and, secondly, that its impact on the contemporary world is
far from exhausted. Together they highlight the contradictions in
the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different
historical periods. Contributors: Aijaz Ahmad, Steven Cagan, Roman
de la Campa, David Glover, May Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rob Nixon,
Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, and Marianna Torgovnick.
V. S. Naipaul stands as the most lionized literary mediator between
First and Third-World experience and is ordinarily viewed as
possessing a unique authority on the subject of cross-cultural
relations in the post-colonial era. In contesting this orthodox
reading of his work, Nixon argues that Naipaul is more than simply
an unduly influential writer. He has become a regressive Western
institution, articulating a set of values that perpetuates
political interests and representational modes that have their
origin in the high imperial age. Nixon uses Naipaul's travel
writing to probe the core theoretical issues raised by
cross-cultural representation along metropolitan-periphery lines.
In successive chapters he explores the relation between
multi-cultural identity and the rhetorical conventions of exile;
the imperial undertow in travel writing as a genre; the tensions
between ethnographic and autobiographical modes of authority; and
the magnetic pull of the Conradian tradition in figuring the third
World. In the penultimate chapter, Nixon analyses the importance of
the discourse of primitivism as a means of abrogating Third World
experiences of historical change and, in particular, of
minimalizing the role of indigenous resistance. Finally, with
reference to economic theories of dependency, he critiques the
vision, popularized by Naipaul, of the post-colonial world as
divided between mimic and parasitic Third World nations on the one
hand and, on the other, the benignly creative societies of the
West.
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