Main entry:

Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze, author.

Title & Author:

African ecomedia : network forms, planetary politics / Cajetan Iheka.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
©2021

Description:

xiii, 322 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-303) and index.
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.

Summary:

"African Ecomedia positions Africa at the center of discourses on media ecologies, materiality, and infrastructure in media studies. Africa is the place where media technologies derive essential components and the place in which they often end up as obsolete matter. Examining film, photography, video art, sculpture, and 3D architectural rendering, Cajetan Iheka argues that African representational arts provide the appropriate site for understanding the ecological footprint of media, and they offer examples of the infinite resourcefulness crucial for an era of finite resources. Working with a method termed "insightful reading," African Ecomedia reorients the fields of African studies, media studies, energy humanities, and the environmental humanities. The decolonial impulse animating the book foregrounds Africa as site of novel epistemological possibilities and sustainable innovations in a time of planetary crisis"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478013815 hardcover
1478013818 hardcover
9781478014744 paperback
1478014741 paperback
electronic book
9781478022046

Subject:

Arts, African.
Afrofuturism.
Figurative art Africa.
Mass media and art Africa.
Environmental sciences Philosophy.
Human ecology Africa.
Ecology in art.
Arts africains.
Art figuratif Afrique.
Médias et art Afrique.
Sciences de l'environnement Philosophie.
Écologie humaine Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
Figurative art.
Human ecology.
Mass media and art.
Africa.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318537
Call No.: 318537
Copy: 1
Status: Available