Saskia Beudel

Saskia Beudel’s most recent book is A Country in Mind: Memoir with Landscape, which was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Literary Awards. She is also the author of the novel Borrowed Eyes, and a study of public art and urban sustainability, Curating Sydney: Imagining the City’s Future (with Jill Bennett). Her essays have appeared in a number of publications including the Iowa Review and Best Australian Essays. She is currently a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

Articles by Saskia Beudel:

6 October 20162 November 2016

Slow violence of incarceration

Saskia Beudel

In 1991, Lawrence Summers, then president of the World Bank, suggested that the bank develop a scheme to export garbage, toxic waste, and heavily polluting industries of rich nations to Africa. ‘Had Summers advocated invading Africa with weapons of mass destruction,’ Nixon writes in Slow Violence, ‘his proposal would have fallen under conventional definitions of violence and been perceived as a military or even an imperial invasion.’