Rob Nixon is a South African author. Nixon received a B.A. from

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, South Africa, in 1978. He was awarded an M.A. in English from the

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in 1982, and a Ph.D. in English from

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in 1989. Nixon teaches environmental studies, postcolonial studies, creative nonfiction, African literature, world literature, and twentieth century British literature at the

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. His book " Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor" was honored with four awards: an

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, the

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of the Environmental Studies Section of the

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, the 2012 2012 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University, and the 2013 ASLE Scholarly Book Award .

Books

*''London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin'' (Oxford) *''Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond'' (Routledge) *''Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy'' (Picador) *''Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'' (Harvard)

References

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