InDocumentary Across Disciplines, editors Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg have curated a provocative cross-disciplinary collection of writings that redefine the idea of the documentary. This is a book that expands the ide...
InDocumentary Across Disciplines, editors Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg have curated a provocative cross-disciplinary collection of writings that redefine the idea of the documentary. This is a book that expands the idea of non-fiction media beyond designations usually found in film studies. It explores topics relevant to contemporary issues, such as the representation of truth and reality, the changing forms of legal evidence and indexicality, and ideas about subjectivity and agency informed by postcolonial theory: topics relevant to contemporary visual art, new media studies, literature, and ethnographic practices in the social sciences. In their introduction, the editors explain thatDocumentary Across Disciplinesemerged out of a desire to reframe or redefine documentary practice in the context of what is often referred to as "the documentary turn" in contemporary visual art. Referencing the proliferation of documentary media projects within the international art exhibition context, the book grapples with the project of expanding the conception of documentary practices beyond film studies for the benefit of a wide range of documentary practitioners. Offering "a corrective to historical myopia" and challenging "the claims of novelty that sometimes accompany documentary in an art context" (18), many of the chapters provide reconsiderations of historical works from experimental film, ethnography, literature, and the visual art world in order to offer new ways of thinking about the definition of *** edited by Balsom and Peleg, the entries in this book not only stand alone as individual pieces but reflect upon each other, sometimes referring to or even reframing works mentioned in a previous chapter, revealing ways in which the entries are literally or figuratively in conversation. This intertextuality makes sense, as this book project emerged out of the biannual Berlin Documentary Forum sponsored by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt under the artistic dire
Ecosystems worldwide have been subject to new or intensified energy development facilitated by technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, activity that has generated concern for air, water, bio...
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Ecosystems worldwide have been subject to new or intensified energy development facilitated by technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, activity that has generated concern for air, water, biotic, and social resources. Application of these technologies in the development of the Bakken oil patch has made it one of the most productive petroleum plays in North America, causing unprecedented landscape industrialization of otherwise rural, agricultural counties in western North Dakota. The region is isolated, and development impacts have not been well-studied. To identify concerns of citizens of the Bakken and determine how research and policy might support them, we conducted a two-part study: First, we held focus groups with resource management and community leaders in three major oil-producing counties. Second, we used an outline of the major concerns expressed by focus group members as a survey for landowners and farm/ranch operators. We found little relationship between survey respondents' reported categorization of energy impacts and actual land area impacted, suggesting factors such as attitude towards development, degree of compensation, and level of disturbance are relevant. Landowners agreed with focus groups on the nature of relationships between energy companies and locals and development impacts on infrastructure and communities;those reporting greater impacts tended to agree more strongly. But many specific problems described in focus groups were not widely reported in the survey, suggesting energy-community relationships can be improved through state-level public policy and respect from energy companies for locals and their way of life. Consideration of these concerns in future energy policy both in the Bakken and worldwide could reduce social tension, lessen environmental impact, and increase overall social, economic, and environmental efficiency in energy development. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
How do we see Southeast Asian and diasporic visual culture today? This is the central question we ask in the Introduction to this special issue of visual Anthropology. To answer the question, we trouble the geographic...
How do we see Southeast Asian and diasporic visual culture today? This is the central question we ask in the Introduction to this special issue of visual Anthropology. To answer the question, we trouble the geographic designation of "Southeast Asia" and how the region's arts and culture have traveled and are received at the present moment. We posit that we need to see Southeast Asia and its diasporas differently. Most notably, we argue that through the lens of gender and sexuality we can better visualize and analyze the critical and creative strategies of artists and writers situated in many parts of the world. We foreground the collected essays, art pieces and poetry that query what it means to labor for the state, the art world or the academy. And as we emphasize, the collection brings together-in color, in varying compositions, in long and short form-the dynamism of art and media texts in all of their complex circulations.
In thisJournal of Palestine Studiesroundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory.
In thisJournal of Palestine Studiesroundtable, a group of Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists share their perspectives on the importance of Palestinian studies and queer theory.
This article is the translation of an important critical review of Paz Encina's first feature film, Paraguayan Hammock (2006), by noted critic Ticio Escobar, originally published in Spanish as "El Claro,"...
This article is the translation of an important critical review of Paz Encina's first feature film, Paraguayan Hammock (2006), by noted critic Ticio Escobar, originally published in Spanish as "El Claro," in the book La cóúóámara sin ley : Hamaca Paraguaya y la refundacióúóáón globalizada del cine guaranóúóáóí , edited by Alejo Magarióúóáóíños (Servilibro: Asuncióúóáóíñón, 2016), 19-24.
Educational theorists ranging from Ivan Illich to Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons have described institutionalized schooling as a modernized, secular church, full of rituals, sacraments, and various incantations. F...
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Educational theorists ranging from Ivan Illich to Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons have described institutionalized schooling as a modernized, secular church, full of rituals, sacraments, and various incantations. For them, the function of the teacher as priest and schooling as baptism is highly problematic, separating education from the common world. As such, the educational theology of the school needs to be suspended in order for educational life to take on new meaning beyond the sacraments of learning. To further this line of inquiry, we turn to the work of Giorgio Agamben on the oath and its originary function of guaranteeing the truthfulness of language (sacrament of language'). Insofar as the oath is also operable in learning (in the voice of the teacher), we argue that such operability can be suspended through a dialogic practice called community of infancy', thereby making possible new, profane forms of educational life beyond baptism.
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