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African ecomedia : network forms, planetary politics / Cajetan Iheka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afrofuturism.
- Arts, African.
- Figurative art--Africa.
- Figurative art.
- Mass media and art--Africa.
- Mass media and art.
- Environmental sciences--Philosophy.
- Environmental sciences.
- Human ecology--Africa.
- Human ecology.
- Ecology in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Waste reconsidered : Afrofuturism, technologies of the past, and the history of the future
- Spatial networks, toxic ecoscapes, and (in)visible labor
- Ecologies of oil and uranium : extractive energy and the trauma of the future
- Human meets animal, Africa meets diaspora : the conjunctions of Cecil the Lion and Black Lives Matter
- African urban ecologies : transcriptions of precarity, creativity, and futurity
- Epilogue: Toward imperfect media.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013815
- 1478013818
- 9781478022046
- 1478022043
- OCLC:
- 1262993496
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