"In Terracene, Salar Mameni shows how the racialized construction of terror in the Western political imagination and critical discourse concerning the threat of anthropogenic climate change have developed in conjunction with one another. Through the logic of the Anthropocene, ecological catastr...

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Main Author:	Mameni, Salar (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham ; London Duke University Press [2023]
Series:	Anima: Critical race studies otherwise
Subjects:	Erdölindustrie Terrorismus Anthropozän Kunstsoziologie Persischer Golf Arts and society / Middle East Arts, Modern / 21st century / Political aspects War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media Environmental degradation in art Human ecology in art Terrorism / Environmental aspects War / Environmental aspects Climatic changes / Social aspects ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"In Terracene, Salar Mameni shows how the racialized construction of terror in the Western political imagination and critical discourse concerning the threat of anthropogenic climate change have developed in conjunction with one another. Through the logic of the Anthropocene, ecological catastrophe has become enclosed within state discourse on terror, and natural disasters, viruses, pollution and other "non-human" dangers have been conflated with the threat of political violence by the "less-than-human" racialized other. Terracene challenges this false equivalence by examining how West Asian artists and knowledge producers confront the "weaponized ecologies" of their homelands and discover ways of living with what Mameni calls terrans-"the mountains, wetlands, viruses, smoke plumes, mutated cells and crude oil" that make up our world"--
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	230 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781478025061 9781478020066