The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)

Brauch, Hans Günter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82202-6_22

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“…Zalasiewicz's argument would lead us to prefer anthropogenic era , or another clearly distinct phrase, over the lower‐case anthropocene , partly in view of the “uppercased initial letter in Anthropocene being lost in the spoken word, and not being available in some non‐English written languages” (Zalasiewicz et al., 2021, p. 19). The significant volume of social science and humanities research already published on the A/anthropocene (Brauch, 2021; Zalasiewicz et al., 2021) suggests researchers outside the earth sciences disagree. The impact of human reshaping of the environment of the planet is perhaps of too vital an importance to be understood solely through geological, stratigraphic and planetary science perspectives.…”

Section: The Anthropocene and Other Anthropocenesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photoanthropocene: The decentered lens of colonial photography

Reisz

2024

Curator The Museum Journal

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Photography—what Barthes called “the living image of a dead thing”—is often overlooked in discussions of cultural heritage decolonization. This paper focuses on a historical photograph attributed to the Hong Kong commercial photographer Lai Fong 黎芳, also known as Afong, that documents the aftermath of the Tianjin massacre of 1870. A photographic print of the image is held in the Robert Hart collection, a little‐known collection of historical photographs accumulated by the Irishman Robert Hart during his half‐century as an administrator in China. Like many such collections—and like Tianjin itself in the late Qing period—the photography collection resists easy categorization, and sits uneasily between Europe and Asia, Chinese and foreign, imperial and anti‐imperial. This essay proposes a “photoanthropocene” perspective, drawing on theoretical writing by Mirzoeff, Zylinska, and others to locate colonial photography within the early anthropocene. The photoanthropocene offers new ways to understand, interpret, and decolonize colonial photography.

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Section: The Anthropocene and Other Anthropocenesmentioning

confidence: 99%