The chapter elaborates on a broad literature on environmental violence, focusing on infrastructural and slow violence. Original case-study research conducted by one of the authors of the book is presented, with cases from India, Italy and US. The chapter is opened by an extensive exploration of methodologies for case-study research in social sciences and the usefulness of employing real-life cases to strengthen critical spatial thinking. Moreover, the different sections of the chapter combine localised empirical research and knowledge with wider theoretical debates. The case of the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project in India focuses on infrastructural violence and shows the entanglements between the manipulation of fragile ecologies, spatial injustice, and disasters, that are even more evident in the context of the climate crisis. The case of the industrial compound in Portoscuso, Italy delves into the topic of slow ecological degradation and on the challenges of living with toxic heritage being a resource periphery. Eventually, the chapter is concluded by a short presentation of the internationally wide cases of New Orleans and the Cancer Alley, by proposing a less usual narrative re-elaboration of phenomena of slow violence and resistance promoted by environmental justice movements.

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Ecological Disasters, Violence and Environmental Justice Movements. Case Studies from India, Italy and the US

  • Simonetta Armondi,
  • Gloria Pessina

摘要

The chapter elaborates on a broad literature on environmental violence, focusing on infrastructural and slow violence. Original case-study research conducted by one of the authors of the book is presented, with cases from India, Italy and US. The chapter is opened by an extensive exploration of methodologies for case-study research in social sciences and the usefulness of employing real-life cases to strengthen critical spatial thinking. Moreover, the different sections of the chapter combine localised empirical research and knowledge with wider theoretical debates. The case of the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project in India focuses on infrastructural violence and shows the entanglements between the manipulation of fragile ecologies, spatial injustice, and disasters, that are even more evident in the context of the climate crisis. The case of the industrial compound in Portoscuso, Italy delves into the topic of slow ecological degradation and on the challenges of living with toxic heritage being a resource periphery. Eventually, the chapter is concluded by a short presentation of the internationally wide cases of New Orleans and the Cancer Alley, by proposing a less usual narrative re-elaboration of phenomena of slow violence and resistance promoted by environmental justice movements.