Elias, Ann Dirouhi (Author)
Duke University Press
Physical Details: 286
Language: English
"... In the 1920s John Williamson in the Bahamas and Frank Hurley in Australia produced mass-circulated and often highly stated photographs and films that cast corals as industrious, colonizing creaures, and the undersea as a virgin, unexplored, and fantastical territory ... [The author contends that] their modern media spectacles yoked the tropics and coral reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature. Using the labor and knowledge of indigenous peoples while ... racializing them as inferior Others, Williamson and Hurley sustained colonial fantasies about people of color and ... their reckless treatment of the sea prefigured attitudes that caused the environmental crises that the oceans and reefs now face. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Peter Hobbins (2021) Review of "Anatomists of Empire: Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World". Historical Records of Australian Science (pp. 98-108).
Review Antony Adler (2020) Review of "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity". Environmental History (pp. 408-410).
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