The Hambantota Connection : Constructing Landscapes, Contesting Modernity
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The Hambantota Connection : Constructing Landscapes, Contesting Modernity
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Drawing upon documentary photography, development geography and economic anthropology, the authors trace connections between local phenomena and global patterns. The Hambantota Connection presents a visual sociology of logistics and livelihoods, of authoritarian leadership and anthropocenic landscapes, and of economic fictions and planetary fluxes. It explores what a place can say about the world, and how the world can be grasped through abstraction and speculation.
Kerstin Hamilton holds a BA in photography from Dublin Institute of Technology, and an MFA from the School of Photography at the University of Gothenburg. Jonas Lindberg has been following the developments in Hambantota since conducting his doctoral re-search in development geography. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg. Karl Palmås completed his PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology.