Welts of Slow Violence:
The Vishakapatnam Gas Leak, 2020
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"What should we learn from the Vishakapatnam Gas Leak, 2020?"
On 7 May 2020, a gas leak killed a few people and injured countless others in Vishakapatnam, India. The video presents the Vizag gas leak from the viewpoint of various challenges of handling such accidents and disasters. It highlights the issues of "slow violence", "globalized notion of risk", and "learning from accidents" while trying to comprehend the tragedy from the viewpoint of the dispossessed and displaced.
