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Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2020.
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| author | Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/108209 Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne Gunter, Elizabeth Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. South Africa -- Western Province -- Social history Exploitation -- South Africa -- Photographs South African West Coast and islands -- Art Oceans -- Effect of human beings on -- Photographs UCTD Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2020. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Salt-Water-Bodies: From an Atlas of Loss is a response, through photomedia(tions) and live art, to material-affective encounters with/in littoral death zones along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean of the South African West Coast and seven adjacent islands – sites haunted by violent legacies and unchecked exploitation, where heightened precarity marks the lives of earth others. Shadow places, where the histories of indiscriminate, increasingly systematic killing and destruction – the ‘harvesting’ of whales, seals, seabirds and guano – are intertwined with narratives of settler-colonialism, empire, state control, racial segregation, land dispossession, coercive labour practices, militarisation, and industrialisation. Presently, these sites fall within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) or otherwise restricted-access zones. This inquiry has been shaped, in many and in important ways, by walking the shore – a liminal space of movement and instability, alternately claimed by land and sea; an often-troubled site of shifting boundaries and transition, uncertainty and possibility, fear and transgression, conflict, myth, death and desire. Islands, even more so, are ambivalent spaces of refuge, exile and quarantine; shipwreck and marooning; indentured labour and military occupation; allegory and escapist fantasy. Salt-Water-Bodies is an in/complete, im/possible atlas – neither comprehensive encyclopaedia, nor reliable map. This inherently unfinished work, a postmortem mourning and wit(h)nessing, is characterised by the friction of at the same time following after and along, losing and finding, straying and circling back; of slow praxis in times of urgency and acceleration, and of grappling with the yearning towards more wakefull and just multispecies futures, but not-knowing how to tell stories that are just big enough. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming Doctoral 2020-02-27T14:20:19Z 2020-04-28T12:25:27Z 2020-02-27T14:20:19Z 2020-04-28T12:25:27Z 2020-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/108209 en Stellenbosch University 443 pages : photographs application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | South Africa -- Western Province -- Social history Exploitation -- South Africa -- Photographs South African West Coast and islands -- Art Oceans -- Effect of human beings on -- Photographs UCTD Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss |
| title | Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss |
| title_full | Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss |
| title_fullStr | Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss |
| title_full_unstemmed | Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss |
| title_short | Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss |
| title_sort | salt water bodies from an atlas of loss |
| topic | South Africa -- Western Province -- Social history Exploitation -- South Africa -- Photographs South African West Coast and islands -- Art Oceans -- Effect of human beings on -- Photographs UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/108209 |
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