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Richardson-Ngwenya, Pamela and Richardson, Ben (2013) Documentary film and ethical foodscapes : three takes on Caribbean sugar. Cultural Geographies, Volume 20 (Number 3). pp. 339-356. doi:10.1177/1474474012469760 ISSN 1474-4740.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474012469760
Abstract
This article demonstrates how certain stories, voices and values around agro-food networks can be made powerful by documentary film. Our central argument is that documentaries mobilize ethics by presenting a partial and affective account of their subject matter, which makes their audience feel differently about the social relations that underpin the production of food and acts as a focal point for media scrutiny and political interventions. We focus attention on three documentaries about Caribbean sugar to explore multiple and disparate ethical claims made about the farmers, workers and communities that embody Caribbean sugar industries. Through a comparison of the three documentaries, we chart how the production and distribution of these films have entailed quite different ethical narratives, encounters and interventions. A key finding is that the context in which films are received is just as important as the content they deliver. The paper concludes with a guarded endorsement for using documentary film to transform the unequal life conditions experienced in the global food system, stressing the need for empirically-grounded critique of the context of documentaries and suggesting the important role that geographers might play as interlocutors in their reception.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Documentary films, Agriculture -- Economic aspects, Sugar trade -- Caribbean | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural Geographies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1474-4740 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 18 June 2013 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 20 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 339-356 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1474474012469760 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 December 2015 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 December 2015 | ||||||
| Funder: | Leverhulme Trust (LT) | ||||||
| Grant number: | ECF/2010/0518 (LT) |
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