Disturbed Ecologies

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

Darcy White Julia Peck Chris Goldie(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 3. März 2023

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Cover
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Visualizing the Pristine: the role of imagery in local stewardship of landscape
Introduction
Capturing 'beauty' in Arjeplog
The work of beautiful photographs
Visualising bad practice
Visible and invisible in the global commons
Conclusion
References
Scene and Unseen: (Re-)envisioning the Arctic Imaginary through Photography
Image
Tensions
Place
Histories
Archives
Sublime
Challenge
Imagination
Investigation
Hope
Atmosphere
Evidence
Contemporary Horizons
References
Data Rush: How 'Green' Computing is Opening Up a New Frontier in Arctic Norway
Part I. The Materiality of the Virtual
The continuities of Potosi
Part II. Making Place for Data Centres
Data rush at a dead end? The short story of Kolos
Infrastructural pipelines that smooth frictions
Speculation, volatility and the anticipatory politics of infrastructure development
Part III. Empty Space and Natural Flows
A natural fit for the surrounding landscape
Absences obscure extraction and labour
Vast, empty and undisturbed: the North remains majestic
Part IV. Conclusion
References
Northern landscape, process, conjuncture
References
Ecological entanglements: embodied surfaces and screens in the work of Victoria Lucas
Introduction
Significant surfaces
Material intra-actions and entanglements
Conclusion
References
Northern landscapes with a story. The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography
Introduction
Purpose and questions
Theory and background
Method
Results: Three dimensions of presencing/ absencing
Theme 1: From above or up close - the role of distance and proximity
Aerials create unique overview
Aerials less emotionally engaging
Theme 2: The role of the North in environmental photography
The North as a potential source of engaging climate visuals
The North as remote and hard to relate to
Theme 3: Intensity of expression
Persuasive images have a numbing effect, subtle expression invites the viewer
Journalistic images with aesthetic qualities
Discussion
References
The Experimental Darkroom: case studies in northern landscape through the material ecology of photographs
1. problematic of the north
2. the lifecycle laid bare / extractivism
2.1 disruptions and between-states / remote
2.2 ghosts / the edge of sight
3. the book and the archive / timeless
4. the zine / geology
5. plant pigment and care / wilderness
5.1 sentience and plant developer / wild
5.2 cyanotype / barren
6. soil portraits / dirt
7. conclusion
References
Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology
Introduction
North
Beautiful Destruction
Nikel Materiality
Conclusion
References
Imperial and geopolitical relationships in Iñupiaq climate change narratives: extinction and cultural survival in The Last Days of Shishmaref
Geopolitics and imperialism
The Last Days of Shishmaref
The narratives of The Last Days of Shishmaref
Salvage ethnography, extinction narratives and mourning
Portraits, kinship and activism
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
Screening Arctic Landscapes in Nordic Television Drama: Anthropocenic Imaginaries, Ecological Crises, National Identities
Landscapes of the 'North' in Times of Transition
Gazing upon the Northern Face of the Anthropo(s)cene
Televisual Landscapes of the Disturbed "North"
Thin Ice
Trapped
Twin
Conclusion
References
The future made present: Photographs of climate change victims in the Norwegian newspaper Arbeiderbladet 1948 - 2006
The pile and the close-up
Emerging victims
Human victims
Victims as testimonies
Exemplary victims
Future victims
The missing polar bear?
References
On getting "in the way of the world": the work of Helene Schmitz and the urgency of decolonising the Western gaze.
Time and timing
The work itself and the discourses that frame it
The four projects in Thinking Like a Mountain
Schmitz' aesthetic approach and "doubleness"
The truth about the Nordics
Concluding thoughts
References
Illustrations
Flora Bartlett
Stephanie Hartle
Aileen Harvey
Inge Panneels
Julia Peck
Robert A. Saunders, Irina Souch, Anne Marit Waade
Thale Sørlie
Liz Wells
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