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The Anthropocene Obscene: Poetic inquiry and evocative evidence of inequality
The Geographical Journal, Vol.190(3), pp.1-16
2024
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Abstract
Poetic inquiry is used to highlight contrasting lived experiences of vulnerability and worsening socio-ecological outcomes among Australia's fastest growing coastal communities. Our approach interweaves multiple participant voices across local and national scales to juxtapose the contrasts of inequality, enmesh social and ecological experiences, and ask reflexive questions of audiences. We offer an evocative portrayal of inequality to the growing body of work demonstrating that unequal and intensifying vulnerabilities are created and sustained through complicated, non-adaptive and hierarchical social systems. We demonstrate that poetic inquiry can interrogate complex system phenomena and broad concepts, such as the Anthropocene, to distil critical and systemic issues while retaining undeniable connections with the deeply personal implications of socio-ecological change. Hence, poetic inquiry can serve analytical and descriptive purposes towards an emotional and political aesthetic providing a compelling reorientation from more conventional modes of inquiry and representation. In this study, the misuse of power and privilege in the Anthropocene is reduced and revealed as the Obscene.
Details
- Title
- The Anthropocene Obscene: Poetic inquiry and evocative evidence of inequality
- Authors
- Dana C Thomsen (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterTim F Smith (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterCarmen Elrick-Barr (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Cluster
- Publication details
- The Geographical Journal, Vol.190(3), pp.1-16
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1111/geoj.12559
- ISSN
- 1475-4959; 0016-7398
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Data Availability
- Research data are not shared due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99982898102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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