Embedded Empire: Structural Violence and the Pursuit of Justice in East Timor

Academic Jet-Setting in a Time of Climate Destabilization: Ecological Privilege and Professional Geographic Travel

“…It unfolds in a manner that concentrates benefits in the bodies and places associated with a privileged minority and detriments in those associated with a disadvantaged majority. As with any "-ism" of accumulation and dispossession (Nevins 2009), it is inextricably tied to privilege and disadvantage-in this case ecological privilege and ecological disadvantage. In other words, dysecologism is inextricably related to the existence and (re-)production of ecological injustice-in addition to other forms and systems of injustice that are sociogeographically embedded.…”

Scorched Atmospheres: The Violent Geographies of the Vietnam War and the Rise of Drone Warfare

“…This sensitivity to the planet draws our attention to forms of violence that can fester and rot long after wars are won and lost. So although violence can be fast and subjective, as with the genocides that slaughter thousands within weeks, other times it can be slow and infrastructural (Nevins 2009).…”

A Time to Die: The « American Way of Life » in the Anthropocene

“…It unfolds in a manner that concentrates benefits in the bodies and places associated with, a privileged minority, and detriments in those associated with a disadvantaged majority. As with any "ism" of accumulation and dispossession [Nevins 2009], it is inextricably tied to privilege and disadvantage. In other words, dys-ecologism is inextricably related to the existence and (re-) production of ecological injustice-in addition to other forms and systems of injustice that are socio-geographically embedded and that produce well-being for the relatively few and harm for the many.…”