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Disturbed Ecologies

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This book critically addresses the geopolitics of environmental devastation from the perspective of photographers, artists, curators and theorists. The contributors engage with recent debates about...
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  • 07 May 2024
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The imaginaries of northern landscape have not remained static in the era of ecological crisis but play a pivotal function within the geopolitics of visual representation. Such imaginaries can sanction those dominant discourses that frame environmental catastrophe as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity, but, it is argued, they also have the capacity to represent a complexity and heterogeneity frequently absent from this broad discursive field. The contributors to this volume engage with the practice, curation and utilization of photography and other lens-based media, to examine the critical role of visual culture in shaping and interrogating conceptions of environmental catastrophe.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 346
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Image
Publication Date: 07 May 2024
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837660265
Format: Paperback
BISACs: ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Darcy White is principal lecturer in visual culture in the Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University.
Julia Peck is a photographer, writer and academic based at the University of Gloucestershire.
Chris Goldie is formerly senior lecturer, currently honorary research fellow, in the Department for Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface and Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Visualizing the Pristine: the role of imagery in local stewardship of landscape 25
Scene and Unseen: (Re-)envisioning the Arctic Imaginary through Photography 47
Data Rush: How 'Green' Computing is Opening Up a New Frontier in Arctic Norway 75
Northern landscape, process, conjuncture 95
Ecological entanglements: embodied surfaces and screens in the work of Victoria Lucas 123
Northern landscapes with a story. The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography 143
The Experimental Darkroom: case studies in northern landscape through the material ecology of photographs 169
Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology 203
Imperial and geopolitical relationships in Iñupiaq climate change narratives: extinction and cultural survival in The Last Days of Shishmaref 231
Screening Arctic Landscapes in Nordic Television Drama: Anthropocenic Imaginaries, Ecological Crises, National Identities 257
The future made present: Photographs of climate change victims in the Norwegian newspaper Arbeiderbladet 1948 - 2006 283
On getting "in the way of the world": the work of Helene Schmitz and the urgency of decolonising the Western gaze 309
Illustrations 335
Biographies of Contributors 341