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Projecting citizenship : photography and belonging in the British Empire
\"Examines the relationship between photography and citizenship, through a comprehensive account of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee's lantern slide lecture scheme: a project initiated by the British government at the beginning of the twentieth century that aimed to photograph the entirety of the empire\"--Provided by publisher.
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Projecting citizenship : photography and belonging in the British Empire
In Projecting Citizenship , Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British government’s Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the twentieth century—a series of lantern slide lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel like an imperial citizen.
Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser elucidates the impact of this vast collection of photographs documenting the land and peoples of the British Empire, circulated between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada to Hong Kong, from the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that these photographs played a central role in the invention and representation of imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship became a photographable and teachable subject by tracing the intended readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart to viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their encounters with these photographs for protest and resistance. Moser shows how the Visual Instruction Committee pictured citizenship within an everyday context and decenters the preoccupation with trauma, violence, atrocity, and conflict that characterizes much of the theoretical literature on visual citizenship and demonstrates that the relationship between photography and citizenship emerged not in the dismantling of modern colonialism but in its consolidation.
Interweaving political and economic history, history of pedagogy, and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the aesthetic and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures, Projecting Citizenship offers important insights into the social inequalities and visual language of colonial rule.
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Projecting Citizenship
In Projecting Citizenship , Gabrielle Moser gives a
comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British
government's Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the
beginning of the twentieth century-a series of lantern slide
lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach
schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel
like an imperial citizen.
Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser
elucidates the impact of this vast collection of photographs
documenting the land and peoples of the British Empire, circulated
between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada to Hong Kong, from
the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that these photographs
played a central role in the invention and representation of
imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship became a
photographable and teachable subject by tracing the intended
readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart to
viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their encounters
with these photographs for protest and resistance.
Interweaving political and economic history, history of
pedagogy, and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the
aesthetic and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures,
Projecting Citizenship offers important insights into the
social inequalities and visual language of colonial rule.
eBook
Dans l'atelier de Alize Zorlutuna
An interview with artist Alize Zorlutuna is presented. Among other things, Zorlutuna talks about his works.
Journal Article
Local awareness and perceptions: consequences for conservation of marsh habitat at Lake Alaotra for one of the world's rarest lemurs
Management and monitoring of community-based protected areas in Madagascar remain challenging because of a lack of financial, human and technical resources, and capacity. At Lake Alaotra, conversion of marshland for rice cultivation and a lack of effective habitat protection have pushed the locally endemic Alaotra gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis to the brink of extinction. The highest density of the species is found in the locally managed Park Bandro, a high-priority conservation zone within the Lake Alaotra New Protected Area. We evaluated local awareness and perceptions of Park Bandro, and discussed preferred management options with local communities. Two questionnaire surveys were carried out, one with 180 participants at six sites around the lake and marsh, and another with 50 participants in the village adjacent to Park Bandro. The majority of participants knew of the existence of Park Bandro but most did not know its purpose or size. Values and perceptions of local communities were influenced by occupation and distance to the Park, with fishers being most aware of the Park. We found that local people had a high level of environmental awareness and were willing to discuss zonation and alternative resource management strategies as long as these activities could provide a tangible livelihood benefit. Lack of awareness among local resource users regarding the purpose and status of protected areas such as Park Bandro is a challenge that needs to be addressed, and one that is relevant for environmental education and management of protected areas throughout Madagascar.
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Contact Matters: Local People’s Perceptions of Hapalemur alaotrensis and Implications for Conservation
Understanding factors that influence local community support for conservation projects is critical to their success. Perceptions of wildlife are particularly important in countries where people rely heavily on natural resources for their survival, as is the case in Madagascar. Renowned as one of the “hottest” regions for global biodiversity, Madagascar hosts an exceptional assemblage of lemurs. Yet little is known concerning the knowledge and perceptions of local people toward lemurs. The Lake Alaotra gentle lemur (
Hapalemur alaotrensis
) is classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List and restricted to marsh habitat in the Lake Alaotra New Protected Area. Habitat destruction and hunting have brought the lemur to the brink of extinction. In this study we characterize local people’s knowledge, awareness, and perceptions of
Hapalemur alaotrensis
. We conducted an initial survey with 180 participants in 6 villages with varying distance to Park Bandro, a high-priority conservation zone. During a second survey, we interviewed 50 people in the village adjacent to the park. Our findings demonstrate that fishers are the most knowledgeable local resource users despite having the lowest education levels, and they also are the most concerned with the endemic lemur’s decline. There is a link between environmental awareness and distance in both a literal and figurative sense; the more often people encounter
Hapalemur alaotrensis
, the more they know about it, and the more likely they are to be concerned about its future. Our study further shows that despite this concern, subsistence is prioritized over conservation in the Alaotra region. Ecological knowledge in the fishers’ communities is a valuable resource that can benefit the conservation of
Hapalemur alaotrensis
and its marshland habitat if conservation planning and management can align the resource users’ concerns and livelihood needs with biodiversity values.
Journal Article
Surviving the End of the World: Colonialism and Climate Change in the Work of Christina Battle and David Hartt
Christina Battle's 2018 series Today in the news more black and brown bodies traumatized the soil is toxic the air is poison offers us slogans for a future that has already happened. In her collages made from found photographs, Battle combines imagery of plant and animal life with succinct but urgently worded texts that describe conditions of precarity, alienation, and exposure. Consider what grows out of toxic ground floats in white text over a snowy mountainside as three seagulls-disturbingly out of place-fly by overhead. A small songbird superimposed over a cluster of multiplying organic forms, glowing pink against the white backdrop, suggests radioactive mutations and mass migrations northward as Earth rapidly heats. In Your Connection is Not Secure, foreboding mushrooms land like space invaders on the moon, evoking interplanetary colonization but also threats to cybersecurity. Battle's billboards, in other words, describe ecological catastrophes that are already unfolding around us and raise the spectre of what is yet to come.
Journal Article
Surviving the End of the World: Colonialism and Climate Change In the Work of Christina Battle and David Hartt/Survivre a la fin du monde : colonialisme et changement climatique dans les oeuvres de Christina Battle et de David Hartt
Christina Battle's 2018 series Today in the news more black and brown bodies traumatized the soil is toxic the air is poison offers us slogans for a future that has already happened. In her collages made from found photographs, Battle combines imagery of plant and animal life with succinct but urgently worded texts that describe conditions of precarity, alienation, and exposure. Consider what grows out of toxic ground floats in white text over a snowy mountainside as three seagulls–disturbingly out of place–fly by overhead. A small songbird superimposed over a cluster of multiplying organic forms, glowing pink against the white backdrop, suggests radioactive mutations and mass migrations northward as Earth rapidly heats. In Your Connection is Not Secure, foreboding mushrooms land like space invaders on the moon, evoking interplanetary colonization but also threats to cybersecurity. Battle's billboards, in other words, describe ecological catastrophes that are already unfolding around us and raise the spectre of what is yet to come.
Journal Article
The Archive
1914 marked the end of the Edwardian dream of colonial consolidation that the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee’s scheme had so compellingly, and imaginatively, projected onto the empire’s classroom walls. Though the Edwardian reign formally ended in 1910, over the next four years international tensions—spurred on in part by mounting demands for sovereignty in the colonies and dominions—and the continued movement of human subjects through processes of immigration and dislocation pulled at the fabric of the imagined imperial community (a strain that erupted in the literal violence of the First World War). These international events drew the COVIC
Book Chapter
The Photographer
In a large leather-bound album of photographs made by Alfred Hugh Fisher in the summer of 1908, a series of thirteen images taken from the deck of a steamboat depicts a journey up the Ottawa River, on its way to Montreal, Canada (fig. 23). Mounted four to a page and captioned with short handwritten phrases describing sights along the route, the sepia-toned images offer the viewer of the COVIC archive a now-familiar perspective. As he had in hundreds of images of ships that appear in the eight albums preceding this one, Fisher has positioned his camera on the steamboat’s lower
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