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“It’s exhausting to create an event out of nothing”: Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time
Cultural Anthropology ( IF 1.9 ) Pub Date : 2018-02-22 , DOI: 10.14506/ca33.1.06
Chloe Ahmann

In recent years, scholars have developed a vocabulary for describing scenes of insecurity, precarity, and disorder too slow to achieve recognition as crises. Concepts such as slow violence, for example, depend on forms of delay, deferral, attrition, and accumulation whose ordinariness exacerbates suffering. But not enough attention has been paid to how those mired in the experience of protracted harm themselves use time to respond to this pernicious condition. In this article, I focus on the deliberate manipulations of time that characterize responses to slow violence by examining a campaign to halt the construction of a trash incinerator in south Baltimore. The incinerator—which posed toxic risk for residents in exchange for the promise of clean, green, renewable energy—was to be the latest in a steady stream of impositions that have plagued local bodies since the nineteenth century. Here, I scrutinize this history and the consequences of gradual industrial incursion on risk perceptibility. I then analyze the ways in which time has been slowed, sped up, reordered, and strategically punctuated by parties on multiple sides of the incinerator campaign. In the process, this article offers up a set of tools that, beyond depicting time as a medium of violence, also specify temporalities of resistance and refusal. Taken together, they suggest that slow violence, rather than merely obstructing response, invites creative forms of temporal orchestration and moral punctuation.

中文翻译:

“创建一个无所事事的工作真是令人筋疲力尽”:缓慢的暴力和时间的操纵

近年来,学者们开发了一种词汇表来描述不安全,不稳定和混乱的场景,这些场景太慢而无法被认可为危机。例如,缓慢暴力之类的概念取决于延迟,延期,减员和积累的形式,其平凡加剧了痛苦。但是,对于那些长期遭受伤害的人们如何利用自己的时间来应对这种有害状况,却没有给予足够的重视。在本文中,我将重点研究通过故意阻止时间在南部巴尔的摩建造垃圾焚化炉的运动来对缓慢的暴力行为做出反应的刻意操纵。焚化炉给居民带来了毒性风险,以换取清洁,绿色,可再生能源-自19世纪以来一直是困扰地方机构的一连串强加措施。在这里,我仔细研究了这段历史以及逐渐进行的工业入侵对风险感知能力的后果。然后,我分析了焚化炉运动各方面的各方如何减少,加速,重新排序和战略性地缩短时间。在此过程中,本文提供了一系列工具,这些工具除了将时间描述为暴力手段之外,还指定了抵制和拒绝的时间性。综上所述,他们认为缓慢的暴力行为不仅会阻碍回应,还会引发创造性的形式的时间编排和道德标点。我仔细研究了这段历史以及逐步进行的工业入侵对风险感知能力的后果。然后,我分析了焚化炉运动各方面的各方如何减少,加速,重新排序和战略性地缩短时间。在此过程中,本文提供了一系列工具,这些工具除了将时间描述为暴力手段之外,还指定了抵制和拒绝的时间性。综上所述,他们认为缓慢的暴力行为不仅会阻碍回应,还会引发创造性的形式的时间编排和道德标点。我仔细研究了这段历史以及逐步进行的工业入侵对风险感知能力的后果。然后,我分析了焚化炉运动各方面的各方如何减少,加速,重新排序和战略性地缩短时间。在此过程中,本文提供了一系列工具,这些工具除了将时间描述为暴力手段之外,还指定了抵制和拒绝的时间性。两者合计,他们认为缓慢的暴力行为不仅会阻碍回应,而且还会引发创造性的形式的时间编排和道德标点。除了将时间描述为暴力手段之外,还应说明抵抗和拒绝的时间性。综上所述,他们认为缓慢的暴力行为不仅会阻碍回应,还会引发创造性的形式的时间编排和道德标点。除了将时间描述为暴力手段之外,还应说明抵抗和拒绝的时间性。综上所述,他们认为缓慢的暴力行为不仅会阻碍回应,还会引发创造性的形式的时间编排和道德标点。
更新日期:2018-02-22
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