Writing from Experience: An Ecocritique of Anthropocene Visuality

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Notes

¹ Timothy W. Luke, Anthropocene Alerts: Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique (Candor, NY: Telos Press Publishing, 2019), p. 10.

² Ibid., 220.

³ Ibid., 296.

⁴ Ibid., 303.

⁵ Paul Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, “Have We Entered the ‘Anthropocene’?,” International GeosphereBiosphere Programme, Global Change 41 (October 31, 2010), available online at: http://www.igbp.net/news/opinion/opinion/haveweenteredtheanthropocene.5.d8b4c3c12bf3be638a8000578.html.

⁶ Nicholas Mirzoeff, “Visualizing the Anthropocene,” Public Culture 26: 2 (2014), p. 216.

⁷ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, p. 207.

⁸ Ibid. 219.

⁹ Mirzoeff, “Visualizing the Anthropocene,” p. 213.

¹⁰ Luke takes the term “arcology” from the writings of architect Paolo Soleri who he credits with a brilliant understanding of the critical relationships among architecture, agriculture, and ecology for modern cities.

¹¹ Julie Bosman, Monica Davey and Mitch Smith, “As Water Problems Grew, Officials Belittled Complaints from Flint,” New York Times (January 20, 2016), available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/flint-michigan-lead-water-crisis.html

¹² Mirzoeff, “Visualizing the Anthropocene,” p. 217.

¹³ For recent examples, see Gwen Ottinger, Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges, (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2013); Christy Spackman and Gary A Burlingame, “Sensory Politics: The Tug-of-War between Potability and Palatability in Municipal Water Production,” Social Studies of Science 48:3 (2018), p. 350–371; Sarah Marie Wiebe, Everyday Exposure, (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2016).

¹⁴ Wiebe, Everyday Exposure.

¹⁵ Giovanna Di Chiro, “Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Cultures”: Environmental Justice, Toxic

Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place,” in Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, (Eds.) Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, and Anand Pandian, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 204–232; Sasha Litvinsena, “Asbestos: Inside and Outside, Toxic and Haptic,” Environmental Humanities 11:1 (2019), pp. 152–173.

¹⁶ David Schlosberg, “Environmental Management in the Anthropocene,” in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Eds.) Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John Meyer, and David Schlosberg, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 193–208, p. 203.

¹⁷ Teena Gabrielson, “The Visual Politics of Environmental Justice,” Environmental Humanities, 11:1 (2019), pp. 27–51.

¹⁸ Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).

¹⁹ Ibid., 214.

²⁰ Wesley Morris, “The Videos that Rocked America. The Song that Knows our Rage,” New York Times (June 3, 2020) available online at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/arts/george-floyd-video-racism.html

²¹ Michael Maniates and John Meyer, The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2010). John Asafu-Adjaye, et al, “An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” accessed October 9, 2015, available online at: http://www.ecomodernism.org/manifesto.

²² Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, p. 300.

²³ For examples see: Alex Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology, (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012); John M. Meyer, Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015); John M. Meyer and Jens M. Kersten, The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016); David Schlosberg and Luke Craven, Sustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019).

²⁴ Luke, Anthropocene Alerts, pp.87.

²⁵ Ibid., 184–204.

²⁶ Ibid., 202.

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Teena Gabrielson

Teena Gabrielson is a professor in the School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies and an associate dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Wyoming. Her recent research seeks to bring environmentalism to account for its role in maintaining traditional hierarchies of power so as to generate a more socially just, expansive, and inclusive green politics. Her work has been published in journals such as Environmental Politics, Citizenship Studies, Theory & Event, and Environmental Humanities as well as in a variety of edited volumes. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (2016) and is working on a book manuscript that advocates a corporeal approach to socio-ecological issues.