An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air

A digital publication by forensic investigation agency INTERPRT

An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air is a new digital publication documenting ten years of research and advocacy from the forensic investigation agency INTERPRT, based in Trondheim, Norway. Using spatial and visual techniques from the fields of architecture and media studies, INTERPRT produces evidence for legal actions against environmental crimes.

This eBook is built around a lexicon of their applied investigative practices, structured across a set of conceptual, legal, and methodological frameworks. The concepts section sets out the unique evidentiary challenges of representing environmental destruction. The legal terms situate the crime of ecocide and the standing of the environment within international criminal law and political theory. The methods section charts INTERPRT’s technical and computational approaches to their investigative work. Alongside this narrative description of their methodologies, the book includes visual materials from the past decade of their investigations, showing these strategies in deployment. An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air aims not only to document INTERPRT’s efforts, but to provide a working toolkit for other practitioners across the environmental justice movement.

An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air is published by End of Medium, a multimodal publisher of digital projects on computing, economics, cultural theory and language. It is distributed exclusively through the platform Library Stack at: https://www.librarystack.org/an-image-of-colonial-violence-pulled-from-the-air/

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