Conflicting and entangled human-nature relationships: A discursive-material analysis of the documentary film Kiruna - A Brand New World
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F21%3A10433426" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/21:10433426 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/21:10433426
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=~Vg0n-n~~V" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=~Vg0n-n~~V</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10233" target="_blank" >10.1002/pan3.10233</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Conflicting and entangled human-nature relationships: A discursive-material analysis of the documentary film Kiruna - A Brand New World
Original language description
Kiruna - A Brand New World (2019) is a documentary film directed by Greta Stocklassa, and produced by the Czech company Analog Vision. It analyses the move of (part of) Kiruna, a north-Swedish mining city, which is threatened by destruction because of the operations of the state-owned ore mining company, Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara (LKAB). The film focusses on the lives of a number of inhabitants, including Timo, a local activist opposing the move, the teenage Sami Maja and Abdalrahman, a teenage refugee from Yemen. Our discursive-material analysis (see Carpentier, 2017) focusses on how the film represents and intervenes in a discursive-material struggle over the identity of three actors-the soil, the city and the mine-and their interconnections. The article starts with a theoretical discussion on discourse theory, enriched by new materialist approaches, to develop a theoretical framework that does justice to the discursive-material entanglement. This framework is then used to identify a hegemonic cluster of discourses that give meaning to nature, consisting of anthropocentrism, dualism and prometheanism, and a counterhegemonic cluster, consisting of ecocentrism, integrationism and survivalism. The analysis shows that the documentary film shows the workings of the hegemonic cluster (centred around the topoi of progress and TINA), but also visualizes the gaps in, and limits of, this hegemonic cluster. Second, the film also gently highlights the discursive-material conflict by giving voice to those who identify with the counterhegemonic discourses, and by representing the soil as having material agency, resisting its exploitation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
People and Nature [online]
ISSN
2575-8314
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1166-1178
UT code for WoS article
000669607700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85108833213