Browsing by Subject "Anthropocene"

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    Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
    (2022) Ndaba, Mpho Antoon; Twidle, Hedley
    Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my sister, Palesa – meditating on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism.
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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 5 - Ecosystem pressures
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Gillson, Lindsey
    In this video, Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan interviews Professor Lindsey Gillson, an ecologist studying the long-term conservation of ecosystems, about her concerns regarding the Anthropocene. She explains that extinctions of modern biota are being caused by many different factors.
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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 5 - Landscape changes
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Hoffman, Timm
    In this video, Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan interviews Professor Timm Hoffman, a plant biologist, on the slopes of Table Mountain where he shows a visual example of landscape change due to human activity. He describes the a citizen science project he runs (RePhoto) which collects old photographs to track changing landscapes.
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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 5 - Threats to aquatic life
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Parker, Denham
    In this video, Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan interviews postdoctoral researcher Dr Denham Parker who studies fisheries science about human impacts on aquatic biodiversity. He explains how modern climate change causes two direct problems for the marine environment and how a lack of knowledge means many are not aware of what impacts humans have.