Disturbed Ecologies (Paperback)

Darcy White

ISBN 10: 3837660265 / ISBN 13: 9783837660265

Published by Transcript Verlag, 2023

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Paperback. In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities for sustaining life on this planet. This anthology critically addresses the geopolitics of environmental devastation from the perspective of photographers, artists, curators and theorists. The contributors engage with recent debates about the Anthropocene and the need to identify the socioeconomic and political causes of climate change. The essays question the validity of images within which ecological crisis is seen as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity. Photographers, artists, curators, and theorists discuss the role of images in addressing the geopolitics of environmental crisis in this essay collection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disturbed Ecologies (Paperback)
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837660265
• ISBN 13: 9783837660265
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.