Siobhan Angu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siobhan Angu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siobhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Angu |
| SIGNATURE | ANGU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8316-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chemical Necromancy
This article examines the historical formation of environmental sacrifice zones, using Louisiana's Cancer Alley as a case study by focusing on the relationship between cotton and the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Corporate communications before World War II often portrayed cotton as integrated into the growing chemicals industry, positioning petrochemicals as a successor to the plantation economy. By analyzing visual culture within corp…
Tar Remedies
This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from the premise that the extraction and burning of this bitumen was and is not inevitable, this dialogue locates hazardous hope in the landscapes of the Athabasca region. To do so, the first sect…
Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSiobhan AngusSiobhan Angus is an assistant professor of media studies at Carleton University. Her book, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2024.Notes1 Robin Kelsey, “Sierra Club Photography and the Exclusive Property of Vision.” RCC Perspectives 1 (2016): 11–26; Finnis Dunaway’s Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental…
Atomic Ecology
Susanne Kriemann's Pechblende explores the material histories and visual (im)possibilities of uranium. Through a focus on the materiality of uranium, the article explores how the medium of photography is entangled with atomic histories by focusing on a series of exhibitions that explore the histories of photography, mining, and the damage slowly wrought by environmental change. While the violence of uranium exposure eludes vision, atomic light ma…
The Frank G. Speck Archive at the American Philosophical Society
El Dorado in the White Pines
This article considers the role played by photography as both a chronicler and an agent of change in the development of industrial capitalism on Canada's northern frontier. Landscape photography of early twentieth-century Canada highlighted raw natural resources or not yet commodified nature, training viewers to associate abundance and national destiny with the resource-rich north through an aesthetic of "wilderness as surplus." As a genre, lands…
El Dorado in the White Pines
This article considers the role played by photography as both a chronicler and an agent of change in the development of industrial capitalism on Canada's northern frontier. Landscape photography of early twentieth-century Canada highlighted raw natural resources or not yet commodified nature, training viewers to associate abundance and national destiny with the resource-rich north through an aesthetic of "wilderness as surplus." As a genre, lands…
El Dorado in the White Pines
This article considers the role played by photography as both a chronicler and an agent of change in the development of industrial capitalism on Canada's northern frontier. Landscape photography of early twentieth-century Canada highlighted raw natural resources or not yet commodified nature, training viewers to associate abundance and national destiny with the resource-rich north through an aesthetic of "wilderness as surplus." As a genre, lands…
The Frank G. Speck Archive at the American Philosophical Society
Atomic Ecology
Susanne Kriemann's Pechblende explores the material histories and visual (im)possibilities of uranium. Through a focus on the materiality of uranium, the article explores how the medium of photography is entangled with atomic histories by focusing on a series of exhibitions that explore the histories of photography, mining, and the damage slowly wrought by environmental change. While the violence of uranium exposure eludes vision, atomic light ma…
Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSiobhan AngusSiobhan Angus is an assistant professor of media studies at Carleton University. Her book, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2024.Notes1 Robin Kelsey, “Sierra Club Photography and the Exclusive Property of Vision.” RCC Perspectives 1 (2016): 11–26; Finnis Dunaway’s Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental…
Chemical Necromancy
This article examines the historical formation of environmental sacrifice zones, using Louisiana's Cancer Alley as a case study by focusing on the relationship between cotton and the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Corporate communications before World War II often portrayed cotton as integrated into the growing chemicals industry, positioning petrochemicals as a successor to the plantation economy. By analyzing visual culture within corp…
Tar Remedies
This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from the premise that the extraction and burning of this bitumen was and is not inevitable, this dialogue locates hazardous hope in the landscapes of the Athabasca region. To do so, the first sect…
Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Photography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)