The authors Slow Emergencies Anderson, Grove, Kearnes, and Rickards build upon two literatures that had not been combined until this piece. They combine study of emergency powers (the way in governments are constantly identifying, defining, preparing for, and regulating lives for emergencies) and feminist, postcolonial, and environmental jsutice scholars. By doing so, they have concluded that constant governing through emergencies have ignored the gradual impacts of previous emergencies or disasters affecting marginalized people. They use the example of nuclear tests on Native Australians and how they are facing significantly higher rates of cancer. They build upon the concept of slow violence and slow death. Slow death is how systemic issues cause health issues in marginalized groups, leading to an early death. This can be seen when comparing life expectancy of groups in the same country. It also builds upon the concept of necropolitics, which is how structures of power determine who is worthy of living and who is not.
