In the inaugural edition of the Environmental Humanities Book Chat, a series of online book reviews co-sponsored by the European Association for the Study for Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE) and the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), Stefania Barca (Centro de Estudos Sociais/Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) and Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) discuss Rob Nixon’s "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor".

"Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor" was published by Harvard University Press in 2011. For more information, please visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674049307

This conversation was conducted by Hannes Bergthaller (National Chung-Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan).