Tola, Miriam

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Miriam Tola’s research explores the intersections between gender, race and the cultural politics of the environmental crisis. She is the co-editor of two volumes, the Handbook of Ecomedia Studies (Routledge 2023) and Ecologie della cura (Orthotes, 2021) both available open access. She has published peer reviewed articles on topics ranging from mediated masculinities in the Anthropocene, ecoqueer documentaries, urban feminist commons and the rights of nature. She is co-applicant of COMMONPATHS, an interdisciplinary, multi-sited research project founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, exploring the urban commons as a pathway toward post-growth societies. As a teacher at JCU, she specializes in gender and media, media and social change and media and the environment. Prior to joining JCU she was a faculty member at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Northeastern University (US). She worked as a film journalist, news producer and film festival programmer.

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    The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
    (Routledge, 2023) López, Antonio; Ivakhiv, Adrian; Rust, Stephen; Tola, Miriam; Chang, Alenda Y.; Chu, Kiu-wai
    The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated. The book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the field. The Handbook highlights five critical areas of ecomedia scholarship: ecomedia theory, ecomateriality, political ecology, ecocultures, and eco-affects. Within these areas, authors navigate a range of different topics including infrastructures, supply and manufacturing chains, energy, e-waste, labor, ecofeminism, African and Indigenous ecomedia, environmental justice, environmental media governance, ecopolitical satire, and digital ecologies. The result is a holistic volume that provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the current state of the field, as well as future developments. This volume will be an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars of media studies, cultural studies, film, environmental communication, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Deep gratitude for the generous support of those institutions that provided funding to enable this volume to be available simultaneously in print and open access: University of Oregon Libraries Open Access Publishing Award, Frank J. Guarini School of Busi-ness at John Cabot University, University of Vermont Humanities Center, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Lausanne, and School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
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    Centering Africa in Ecomedia Studies. Interview with Cajetan Iheka
    (Routledge, 2023) Tola, Miriam; Chu, Kiu-wai; Rust, Stephen
    In this conversation, Cajetan Iheka discusses his book African Ecomedia and its contribution to ecomedia studies. This volume, published by Duke University Press in 2021, centers Africa as a key site for media production, consumption, and disposal. It comprises five chapters examining a rich media archive produced in African locations, from Ghana to Kenya, Senegal to South Africa, and spanning video art, photography, documentary, and fiction film. African Ecomedia combines attention to the transformative agency of visual media with a focus on the socioecological costs of media processes. Cajetan Iheka is a Professor of English at Yale University. He specializes in African literature, ecocriticism, ecomedia, and postcolonial literature. Iheka is the author of the books African Ecomedia (2021) and Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (2018), and the editor of the MLA volume Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media (2022).