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Ecomedia is a subfield of environmental humanities that pays attention to the cultural creation and critique of media texts such as films, videos, and other content forms. The geopolitical and socioeconomic term 'global south' is used in this course to refer to societies of the southern hemisphere such as those in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including (arguably) nations such as Australia, and New Zealand. With specific media texts drawn from Africa, Latin America, and New Zealand, the course examines the media representations of the impact of capitalism, extractivism, and the Anthropocene on indigenous societies. Major theoretical and analytical concepts of ecomedia will receive attention. At the end of the course, students are expected to have basic knowledge of the ideas that constitute ecomedia and gain skills in the analysis of media texts from the global south.
Materials for this course consist of media and theoretical texts.
Media Texts
1. Black November by Jeta Amata, 2012 (a feature film) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2147225/)
2. Beyond the Oil Age: The Real Cost of Cobalt Mining in the DRC by Fatima Lianes, 2024 (a docu-film) (https://www.aljazeera.com/video/dying-earth/2024/5/1/beyond-the-oil-age)
3. Whina by James Napiea Robertson and Paula Whetu Jones, 2022 (a feature film) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6826120/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
4. The Last Forest by Luiz Bolognesi, 2021. (docu-drama film) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14029622/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
(Students are encouraged to watch films 2 & 3 before classes as only clips will be shown during the lectures; films 1 & 4 will be shown in the class).
Theoretical Texts
1. Coryat, Diana. "Eco-Territorial Media Practices: Defending Bodies, Territories, and Life Itself in Latin America." The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, edited by Lopez et al., Routledge, 2024.
2. Iheka, Cajetan. African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics. Duke UP, 2021. (The first and fourth chapters of the book)
3. Ivakhiv, Adrian and Antonio López. "When Do Media Become Ecomedia?" The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, edited by Lopez et al., Routledge, 2024.
4. Pearson, Sarina. "Hostile or Hospitable: New Zealand Television Maps Degrees of Belonging." Ecomedia: Key Issues, edited by Rust et al., Routledge, 2016.
5. Rahul Mukherjee. "Radiant Energy and Media Infrastructures of the South." The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, edited by Lopez et al., Routledge, 2024.
(These texts will be supplied electronically via Moodle). |
