In the Global South, movements have emerged over the last forty years to fight the ecological destruction wrought by multinational corporations and rapacious nation-states. And they have frequently become known around the world because of the efforts of prominent activist-writers -- people like Arundhati Roy and Ken Saro-Wiwa. Rob Nixon discusses several of these movements, their most visible spokespeople, and the complex relationship between the two, as well as the slow violence that these movements fight.