Disturbed Ecologies: Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis

The imaginaries of northern landscape have not remained static in the era of ecological crisis but play a pivotal function within the geopolitics of visual representation. Such imaginaries can sanction those dominant discourses that frame environmental catastrophe as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity, but, it is argued, they also have the capacity to represent a complexity and heterogeneity frequently absent from this broad discursive field. The contributors to this volume engage with the practice, curation and utilization of photography and other lens-based media, to examine the critical role of visual culture in shaping and interrogating conceptions of environmental catastrophe.

Darcy White is principal lecturer in visual culture in the Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University.
Julia Peck is a photographer, writer and academic based at the University of Gloucestershire.
Chris Goldie is formerly senior lecturer, currently honorary research fellow, in the Department for Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University.