Who makes whom visible? Excavating eco-visual cultures in DR Congo and its diasporas

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ID12918534
AuthorsJen Katshunga (Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume18
Issue3
Pages213-217
Publication date2025-07-09
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ccc/tcaf023
OpenAlexW4412131001
LanguageEN
References cited17

Using Congolese artistic modalities as a tool for excavation, this article reflects on narratives around violence, memory, the environment(s) and identity in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its diasporas. I disrupt visibility using what I term the “technologies of race-making,” to simultaneously explain: (1) the functions of a peripheral visuality that flattens and erases our land relations and coerced participation in extractive global colonial and imperialist technological “advancements”; (2) how Congo is (then) reproduced as a volcanic environment; and (3) the erasures of the multi-sense and interior violence of ecocide and genocide experienced in Congo and its diasporas, particularly for, disabled and/or trans/gender expansive and queer peoples. Employing a Congolese and Black African diasporic transfeminist and queer ecological disability justice approach, I contend that marginalized Congolese and Congolese diasporic perspectives are uniquely positioned to understand the interconnected convergence of human-land-animal-plant catastrophes and possibilities within and outside of Congo

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Democracy · Diaspora · Genocide · Identity (music · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Sex work and related issues · Gender Studies · Law

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