Forms and Politics of Ecomedia in Africa

How have African media producers grappled with resources extraction and other ecological challenges across the continent? This lecture turns to African ecomedia — which include arts like film and photography, and resource media including oil–to account for the perils and worldmaking possibilities of media in confronting planetary precarity. Positioning Africa as ground zero for the environmental and energy humanities, the talk offers inspiring examples of the infinite resourcefulness crucial for an era of finite resources.

The talk is hosted by the Environmental Humanities Colloquium and co-sponsored by the Fluid Futures Forum, Anthropology, English, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.