On the Events of Flint, Michigan

April 10, 2016Leave a comment

I've recently begun writing an ecocritical analysis of slow environmental violence as it ravages communities, specifically those below the poverty line both in the United States and abroad. My reading in my Ecocriticism graduate seminar (where ecology and studies of nature meet literary analysis) have led me to an analysis of Flint, Michigan, informed by the … Continue reading On the Events of Flint, Michigan

Adirondack Winters

March 10, 2016March 10, 2016Leave a comment

Huntington Memorial Camp. Raquette Lake, New York- in the Adirondack Mountains. 2016 has been my first winter in graduate school, and my first winter in quite some time to not visit this special place. The walk to the church wasn’t terribly long, maybe three quarters of a mile, but with our boots sinking into the … Continue reading Adirondack Winters

Rob Nixon’s “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor”

March 3, 2016March 3, 20161 Comment

Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor tackles the clash between exploiters of natural resources, driven by desires for short term profit gains, and those native to the exploited areas with no choice but to live with the ecological aftermath. Nixon asserts his theory of slow violence played out in the environmental … Continue reading Rob Nixon’s “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor”