One Table Two Elephants
On Visual Ethnography and Urban Ecology

Henrik Ernstson & Jacob von Heland (KTH)

Join us for a conversation with Henrik Ernstson and Jacob von Heland on postcolonial ecologies and Southern urbanism. Taking their film One Table Two Elephants (2018) as a starting-point, we explore the knowledge politics of a postcolonial city, as well as the potentials of cinematic ethnography as a methodological toolset for critical environmental research. The film was shot in Cape Town in 2018 and investigates how different ways of knowing – across a range of groups – contribute to the often fraught efforts of crafting symbols of unity and cohesion.

1. Two modes of conservation
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2. Apartheid and the language of conservation
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3. Colored nature
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4. Inscriptions of colonialism in nature and culture
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