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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage / edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen

Uniform Title:
Adjusting the lens (2021)
Published:
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2021]
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Additional Creators:
Lien, Sigrid, 1958- and Nielssen, Hilde
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Contents:
Introduction: Coloniality, Indigeneity, and Photography -- Part 1: Revisiting the Modern Colonial Order -- Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 -- Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adventures in Sámi Areas of Norway -- Negotiating Meaning: John Møller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature -- Part 2: Identifying Decolonial Strategies -- Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America -- Disruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut -- "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sámi Approaches to Archival Visual Materials -- The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People -- On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods -- Part 3: Decolonizing Art -- Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sámi Political Community -- Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland -- Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sápmi -- Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway -- Part 4: Negotiating Theory -- Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation."--
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ISBN:
9780774866620 (electronic book)
0774866624 (electronic book)
9780774866637 EPUB
0774866632 EPUB
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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