Wildlife rhetoric: colonization, commodification or interspecies collaboration?

dc.contributor.authorBritz, Sonja
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-03T07:22:53Z
dc.date.available2009-07-03T07:22:53Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractResearch into wildlife rhetoric in sub-Saharan Africa has led to the supposition that wildlife representation in contemporary visual culture resides in media representation and wildlife tourist industries rather than in the fine arts. Tourist industries contribute, to a large extent, to what constitutes the notion of wilderness and wild animals. This paper argues that cinematic and photographic technologies and colonial views on animals are sometimes organically conjoined in a complex network binding together and governing the way these discourses mutually affect each other. Contemporary discourse in animal studies challenges reductionism and anthropological views held on animals: central to the ethical debate surrounding animals and animal representation is the acknowledgement of a choice to be made between either dominion or stewardship of the animal.en_US
dc.description.abstractRETORIEK INSAKE WILD: KOLONIALISME, KOMMODIFIKASIE OF INTERSPECIES KOLLABORASIE? Navorsing insake die retoriek betreffende wilde diere in Afrika besuide die Sahara, toon dat die representasie van wilde diere binne die visuele kultuur te vinde is in media-uitbeelding, asook in die natuurlewe toeriste-bedryf eerder as in die skone kunste. Die toeriste-bedryf dra tot 'n groot mate by tot die die idee van wildernis en wilde diere. Hierdie referaat stel dit dat film en fotografie tegnologie tesame met kolonialisme tot groot mate die diskoerse in verband met wildernis en wilde diere reguleer. Kontemporere sieninge in die veld van dierestudies bevraagteken reduksionere en antropologiese sieninge oor die dier, instede word die keuses voorgestel tussen dominasie en oorsig.
dc.identifier.citationBritz, B 2007, 'Wildlife rhetoric: colonization, commodification or interspecies collaboration?', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 22, no 1, pp 204-215. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10630
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectCinemaen_US
dc.subjectColonial discourseen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationen_US
dc.subjectTourist gazeen_US
dc.subjectAgencyen_US
dc.subjectPhotographyen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonial discourseen_US
dc.subjectSafarien_US
dc.subjectWildernessen_US
dc.titleWildlife rhetoric: colonization, commodification or interspecies collaboration?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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