Connection:

In Rob Nixons, Slow Violence, he takes a look at developing countries and how they are affected by damages that are happening around them. He focuses on structural damages and how this causes people to be displaced. One thing that connects to the people of Afghanistan is the idea of displacement due to situations happening around them. A lot of people in Afghanistan have had to move to new areas due to the droughts, and the violence that is happening all around them. This has caused them to forget where they are from and they do not have a permanent home due to this. This is a common issue for the people of Afghanistan because everyday, they have to wonder if they will have enough water to survive and plant the food they need. Slow violence is also a common theme in the book. Slow violence is seen in Afghanistan in many ways. The conflicts between Afghanistan and their neighboring countries were out of sight at first. They were fought by the government behind closed doors, but as the Taliban began to move in, these conflicts were brought to their front door and they were faced with ongoing fights and skirmishes that they did not sign up to be a part of.
 

Rob Nixon:

“By slow violence I mean a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all” (Nixon, page. 2). This quote from the chapter gives a definition on what slow violence is and this is exactly what the people of Afghanistan are facing everyday. This violence comes out of nowhere and soon, they are displaced and they have to move to different areas just to survive. Slow violence affects the people of Afghanistan daily and no matter how many times they move and relocate, they are not able to escape the horrors that are haunting their nation. 

Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.