Part 1: Written essay
My research discussion is centred on providing a critical overview of the main aims, objectives, concepts, ideas and approaches of Environmental Humanities (see Holm and Brennan 2018; Holm et al 2015; O’Gorman et al 2019; Palsson et al 2013; Steffen et al 2011).
Part 2: Photo-essay
Through the use of a photo essay, my objective is to outline visual and expressive way of constructing philosophical insight, as well as how they offer a means to visualise academic insights in experimental and experiential ways.
Using three photographs of environmental concern(s) or problem(s) in Southern Africa’s environment (pollution, biodiversity loss, veld fires, drought, recycling).
Part 1: Written essay
Through Carson (1962), Whitehouse (2015), Kolbert (2014) and Nixon (2011), the basis of my research is to Identify how disappearing ecosystems and dwindling biodiversity may be regarded as a form of slow violence.
Part 2: Photo-essay
This is a photo essay of three photographs based on Rob Nixon’s notion of ‘slow violence’. Nixon (2011:3) argues that a major problem in raising awareness of slow violence is representational: “how to devise arresting stories, images, and symbols adequate to the pervasive but elusive violence of delayed effects”.
Through this photo essay, I seek to Identify an environmental concern(s) that can be regarded as a form of ‘slow violence’. With great concern about what images, narrative and symbols to increase the public’s awareness of your chosen environmental concern.