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African Ecomedia

Autor Cajetan Iheka
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2021
In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socio-ecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Pieter Hugo's photography of electronic waste recycling in Ghana and Idrissou Mora-Kpai's documentary on the deleterious consequences of uranium mining in Niger. These works highlight not only the exploitation of African workers and the vast scope of environmental degradation, but also the resourcefulness and creativity of African media makers. They point to the unsustainability of current practices while acknowledging our planet's finite natural resources. In foregrounding Africa's centrality to the production and disposal of media technology, Iheka shows the important place visual media has in raising awareness of and documenting ecological disaster even as it remains complicit in it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478014744
ISBN-10: 1478014741
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 41 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 228 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Waste Reconsidered: Afrofuturism, Technologies of the Past, and the History of the Future  25
2. Spatial Networks, Toxic Ecoscapes, and (In)visible Labor  64
3. Ecologies of Oil and Uranium: Extractive Energy and the Trauma of the Future  108
4. Human Meets Animal, Africa Meets Diaspora: The Conjunctions of Cecil the Lion and Black Lives Matter  152
5. African Urban Ecologies: Transcriptions of Precarity, Creativity, and Futurity  186
Epilogue. Toward Imperfect Media  221
Notes  231
Bibliography  273
Index  305