On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Documentary Film and Philosophy
Em: Refugee Genres: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge
Editor: Palgrave Macmillan
Páginas: 133-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2_7
Resumo:
This chapter analyses documentary film aesthetics, arguing how human uprootedness—of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people—reveals a necropolitics in action that may be viewed ecocritically. Reflecting upon humans that have been displaced by war and by climate change, as well as due to the effects of global capitalism and “slow violence,” the chapter analyzes five documentaries, namely Michael Nash’s Climate Refugees (2010), Daphne Matziaraki’s 4.1 miles (2016), Kalyanee Mam’s Lost World (2018), and Godfrey Reggio’s more “abstract” Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and Powaqqatsi (1988), so as to uncover an ecocentric empathy and aesthetics of affect within an ecocritical and necropolitical understanding of the contemporary plight of refugees.