Iheka African Ecomedia

Network Forms, Planetary Politics
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2204-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture, showing how African visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture deliver a unique perspective on the socio-ecological costs of media production.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iheka, Cajetan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.