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The article looks at the discourses of five selected Western food documentaries released in the last decade that deal with meat production and animal agriculture and their impact on the environment, animal welfare, and nature. The article finds that the documentaries employ discourses about nature that involve highly romanticized notions of nature, the environment, and animals that nostalgically harken back to the pre-modern, pastoral, artisanal, and peasant ethos. In the studied documentaries, nature is portrayed as a victim of modern technologies, but also as an avenging and self-restoring entity. Although the Romantic visions of pristine nature and natural meat and food production are grounded in the late eighteenth century, they remain an important source of skepticism and critique of capitalist, industrial, scientific, and technological forms of food- and meat production. By applying the method of multimodal critical discourse analysis, this study reflects on the nature of Romantic representations and the potential meanings of visual, auditory, and linguistic features in the selected documentaries, as well as the potential of Romantic thought to trigger paradigmatic shifts in the way nature is affected by the meat system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Depicting the conception, rehearsal and performance of a ballet inspired by Jane Campion's seminal 1993 film The Piano, this New Zealand documentary offers insights into the interplay between dancers and [...]

Journalism about West Papua is in many ways an act of translation. It involves not only translating between languages, but also disciplines, audiences and knowledges. This article examines how interdisciplinary research--such as anthropology and history--might intersect with journalism as a means to understand and challenge existing gaps in translation, or 'silences' about West Papua in the past and present. It also reflects on how audio documentaries carry out such translation work on misunderstood and underreported issues. To illustrate this, the author reflects on the process of making the audio documentary #Illridewithyou, West Papua for ABC Radio National's Earshot documentary programme as well as a companion longform article for the ABC's website. Keywords: anthropology, audio, documentary, Frontline, history, human rights, Indonesia, interdisciplinary research, investigative journalism, journalism as research, West Papua, Silences in West Papuan history and journalism MY anecdotal evidence for how poorly West Papua (1) is understood by my fellow Australians is this: whenever I mention I have an [...]

In this study, I provide a new outlook on how to assess the social health of the community to which the Letter to the Hebrews was directed. I challenge the [...]

Erica Glynn's She Who Must Be [begin strikethrough]Obeyed[end strikethrough] Loved is a moving, sensitive documentary helmed by a daughter seeking to chronicle her mother's achievements. With its scope encompassing not [...]

A number of the studies on international intergovernmental organizations (IOs) rule out that they are autonomous or capable of self-directing their processes of change. The case of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) makes it possible to see precisely to what degree an IO is autonomous. Through documentary analysis and interviews with the leadership of CICIG, this article shows that the organization adjusted and reinterpreted its mandate as a result of a process of internal and autonomous decisions. This evidence contributes to the debate about the IOs as self-directed actors. Keywords corruption--impunity--autonomy--self-directed actor--rule of law, 1 Introduction Recent work on international intergovernmental organizations (IOs) has sparked an interesting theoretical debate focused on questions of autonomy and agency. The object is to understand whether, despite being [...]