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.
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    Orchid Care: an exploration in experiential and theoretical environmental care practice shown to orchids through the Anthropocene
    (2024) Croukamp, Bradley; Twidle, Hedley; Green Lesley
    This thesis is an exploration in experiential and theoretical environmental care practice shown to orchids through the Anthropocene. It revolves around two African orchid species, one in Cape Town and one in Zimbabwe, and the care practices shown to these plants. The thesis explores the question: in what way does an orchid's status generate a level of institutional care that attempts to protect the plants? Chapter 1 explores the idea of orchid status through colonial collection. Chapter 2 focuses on the reactionary rules that came about after this exploitation. In addition, this chapter deals with the structure of CITES and what happens when orchids are over-collected because of their status. These ideas and themes of status and collection are applied to the case studies in Chapter 3, with special focus on field philosophy. Storytelling is used as the basis for Chapter 3, personal experience and primary research informs this chapter to interrogate care practices that surround the case studies . Major influences on the interactions throughout this thesis are theorists Anna Tsing, Thom Van Dooren, Donna Harraway and Amy Hinsley. These theorists deal with anthropogenic landscapes and ways of being that navigate the Anthropocene which is a lens used throughout this thesis in an attempt to answer the research question.