Data/hora: 10/06/2024 15:58:36

Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda
Autores: | Thomsen, Dana C; Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast; dthomsen@usc.edu.au.
Data: | 2015-10-20
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Art; Australia; Autoethnography; Environmental change; Interdisciplinary; Learning for sustainability; Photography; Social-ecological change; Visual communication.
Resumo: | I explore the potential utility of visual imagery to engage viewers in connecting ways with dynamic social-ecological contexts. Constructing photographs in response to the mass stranding of birds (shearwaters) on the east coast of Australia in 2013, I demonstrate the potential of wildlife and landscape photography to represent the impacts of environmental change at personal, relational, spatial, and temporal scales simultaneously.  In so doing, I suggest that the production and interpretation of photographs can lead to responses that: (1) foster attentive forms of vision in familiar contexts; (2) provoke reflexive self-examination and critiques of broader, complex systems; (3) develop emotional connections with those impacted by social-ecological change; and (4) provide a foundation for precautionary behavioral change in uncertain contexts. Consequently, &amp;#8216;seeing&amp;#8217; is reconceptualized as questioning, not believing, and as a valuable contribution to learning for sustainability and resilience.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Insight
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol20/iss4/art9/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 20, No. 4 (2015)