Cajetan Iheka

African Ecomedia

Network Forms, Planetary Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014744
• ISBN-10: 1478014741
• Artikelnr.: 60599017

Autorenporträt

Cajetan Iheka

Inhaltsangabe

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