The Violent Environments series shows how violence is enacted through, for, and on environmental spaces, including land, water, and air.
The acceleration of diverse and converging crises—climate disaster and apartheid, environmental racism and resurgent ecofascism, ecocide and land grabbing—reinforce that environmental violence has become an unmistakable feature of contemporary life. Environmental violence is both sudden and prolonged; acute and cumulative; hypervisible and invisibilized; direct and structural; material and epistemic.
From the use of force to coerce conservation and suppress environmental activism, to the perpetuation of environmental harm through state-sponsored extraction and pollution, to the weaponization and militarization of nature, this series explores the environment as a medium of violence, as a means of violence, as the stakes of violence, and as the product of violence.
Series editors: Kristen Billings, Rebecca Laurent, Rudy Molinek
(Dis)Placement of German Heritage in New Ulm, Minnesota
Hindustan Zinc and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility
Saving the Forest to Secure the Mine in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
Multispecies Grief in the Wake of Megafires
Reforging Gun Culture in the American West: A Conversation with Bryce Andrews
The Problem with Wind Farming on Rajasthan’s Sacred Lands
Pandemics, Predation, and Crip Worldings
Mapping the Unfree Labor of Prison Agriculture: A Conversation with Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca
The Violence of Gated Communities in Buenos Aires’s Wetlands
What Are Violent Environments?
Featured image: A helicopter moves through a sky stained by plumes of black smoke
