Disturbed Ecologies: Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis

Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Disturbed Ecologies

Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis

Edited by: Darcy White , Julia Peck and Chris Goldie

Volume 203 in the series Image

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460269

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About this book

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.

Author information

Darcy White is principal lecturer in visual culture in the Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University, where she teaches the history and theory of photography. She is the founder of the Northern Light Contemporary Landscape Photography research group and co-convener of its biennial conference.
Julia Peck is a photographer, writer and academic based at the University of Gloucestershire, with a long-standing interest in landscape and the environment, political ecology and philosophies exploring non-binary approaches to human/nature relationships. Her photographic work has been exhibited in the UK and she has contributed images, articles and reviews to »Next Level, Dandelion, Source, Visual Studies, History of Photography«, »Photographies« and »Journal of Australian Studies«.
Chris Goldie is formerly senior lecturer, currently honorary research fellow, in the Department for Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University. Recent publications have appeared in the »Journal of Design History«, »The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies and Development«, and the »Design Journal«.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface and Acknowledgements Darcy White, Julia Peck and Chris Goldie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Darcy White, Julia Peck and Chris Goldie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Visualizing the Pristine: the role of imagery in local stewardship of landscape Flora Mary Bartlett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Scene and Unseen: (Re-)envisioning the Arctic Imaginary through Photography Liz Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Data Rush: How ‘Green’ Computing is Opening Up a New Frontier in Arctic Norway Janna Frenzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Northern landscape, process, conjuncture Chris Goldie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Ecological entanglements: embodied surfaces and screens in the work of Victoria Lucas Stephanie Hartle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Northern landscapes with a story. The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography Jonas Harvard and Mats Hyvönen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
The Experimental Darkroom: case studies in northern landscape through the material ecology of photographs Aileen Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology Inge Panneels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Imperial and geopolitical relationships in Iñupiaq climate change narratives: extinction and cultural survival in The Last Days of Shishmaref Julia Peck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Screening Arctic Landscapes in Nordic Television Drama: Anthropocenic Imaginaries, Ecological Crises, National Identities Robert A. Saunders, Irina Souch and Anne Marit Waade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
The future made present: Photographs of climate change victims in the Norwegian newspaper Arbeiderbladet 1948 – 2006 Thale Sørlie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
On getting “in the way of the world”: the work of Helene Schmitz and the urgency of decolonising the Western gaze Darcy White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Biographies of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 346
Keywords: Landscape; Geopolitics; Northern; Climate; Art; Image; Nature; Art History; Human Ecology; Fine Arts

eBook

Published: March 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839460269