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Rhetorical documentaries and the Arctic: raising awareness about the destruction of a natural global common
| Resumo: | This article aims to highlight the importance of raising awarenessabout the Arctic’s destruction and its consequences for humankind;sustaining that awareness can be promoted by rhetoricaldocumentaries. Awareness is a necessary departing point to fostersustainable citizenship and change behaviours. This change isneeded to preserve the Arctic and tackle global warming. Theauthor uses a humanistic interpretive paradigm to demonstrate thecontribution of the rhetorical documentary “The Last Ice” (2020)to raise awareness about the destruction of the Arctic, a naturalglobal common. The main conclusion pinpoints the media's role inrecognizing the need to listen, cooperate, and affect policy-making,turning it into a more unbiased and inclusive process since theyallow awareness raising among citizens. Rhetorical documentariesmay be a valuable resource to combine means to make theirvoice globally heard, enforcing the United Nations Declaration onthe Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and active sustainablecitizenship. |
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| Autores principais: | Sebastião, Sónia Pedro |
| Assunto: | Sustainable Citizenship; Documentary Studies; Frame Analysis; Human-centred Approach; Rhetorical Model. |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | This article aims to highlight the importance of raising awarenessabout the Arctic’s destruction and its consequences for humankind;sustaining that awareness can be promoted by rhetoricaldocumentaries. Awareness is a necessary departing point to fostersustainable citizenship and change behaviours. This change isneeded to preserve the Arctic and tackle global warming. Theauthor uses a humanistic interpretive paradigm to demonstrate thecontribution of the rhetorical documentary “The Last Ice” (2020)to raise awareness about the destruction of the Arctic, a naturalglobal common. The main conclusion pinpoints the media's role inrecognizing the need to listen, cooperate, and affect policy-making,turning it into a more unbiased and inclusive process since theyallow awareness raising among citizens. Rhetorical documentariesmay be a valuable resource to combine means to make theirvoice globally heard, enforcing the United Nations Declaration onthe Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and active sustainablecitizenship. |
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