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On May 7, 2026, Kate Huber presented her new book, Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland at Tilburg University. In this video, Huber provides an overview of the book. Huber describes how Irish Ecomedia examines the environmental impacts of colonialism from the late imperial era in the nineteenth century through to early twenty-first century fossil fuel extraction projects in Ireland. By analyzing photography, literature, broadcast media, music, and film in representations of fisheries, agricultural, and energy development projects, Huber’s Irish Ecomedia demonstrates the foundational connections among European colonialism, the environment, and cultural expression in Ireland, which was Britain’s first colonial testing ground and is now a postcolonial nation in Europe. The book shows how connections between colonialism and the environment rearticulate themselves over time across shifting media landscapes, ideologies of progress, and unfolding technologies to fundamentally alter relationships between people and their material and multispecies surroundings.
On May 7, 2026, Kate Huber presented her new book, Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland at Tilburg University. In this video, Huber provides an overview of the book. Huber describes how Irish Ecomedia examines the environmental impacts of colonialism from the late imperial era in the nineteenth century through to early twenty-first century fossil fuel extraction projects in Ireland. By analyzing photography, literature, broadcast media, music, and film in representations of fisheries, agricultural, and energy development projects, Huber’s Irish Ecomedia demonstrates the foundational connections among European colonialism, the environment, and cultural expression in Ireland, which was Britain’s first colonial testing ground and is now a postcolonial nation in Europe. The book shows how connections between colonialism and the environment rearticulate themselves over time across shifting media landscapes, ideologies of progress, and unfolding technologies to fundamentally alter relationships between people and their material and multispecies surroundings.
