Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque 45
6. 2. Fast-forward Fossil 68
7. 3. Pipedreams 103
8. 4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor 128
9. 5. Unimagined Communities 150
10. 6. Stranger in the Eco-village 175
11. 7. Ecologies of the Aftermath 199
12. 8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies 233
13. Epilogue 263
14. Notes 283
15. Acknowledgments 339
16. Index 343
17. Backmatter 354