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- Title
Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda.
- Authors
Thomsen, Dana C.
- Abstract
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, 'seeing' is reconceptualized as questioning, not believing, and as a valuable contribution to learning for sustainability and resilience.
- Subjects
ART; AUTOETHNOGRAPHY; GLOBAL environmental change; INTERDISCIPLINARY research; SUSTAINABILITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISUAL communication
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 4, p242
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-07925-200409