African Ecomedia

Network Forms, Planetary Politics

Cajetan Iheka (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1381-5 (ISBN)

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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 socioecological 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.

Cajetan Iheka is Associate Professor of English at Yale University, author of Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature, editor of Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media, and coeditor of African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	41 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	771 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4780-1381-8 / 1478013818
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1381-5 / 9781478013815
Zustand	Neuware