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Contextualizing Disaster
Contextualizing Disaster presents “highly visible” disasters as well as “slow and hidden” disasters, and how different parties involved in recovery processes contextualize them.
Contextualizing Disaster presents “highly visible” disasters as well as “slow and hidden” disasters, and how different parties involved in recovery processes contextualize them.
In this commentary, Stefan Helmreich considers how Hokusai’s famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, has recently been leveraged into commentaries upon the Anthropocene, and how the image has been adapted to speak to the contemporary human-generated global oceanic crisis.