Ecofilm Congo: Practices of environmental relations through media-activism in Goma, DR Congo.

Increasingly, environmental films from the Global South – circulating everywhere from small screens to major film festivals – have proved to be empowering, as they are used as tools for advocacy. However, despite their potential to raise global awareness, they remain unexamined in academia. Rethinking the environmental crisis from within the humanities and social sciences needs to include experience-based perspectives from the Global South. My project takes the DR Congo as a case-in-point. How does environmental filmmaking from the DR Congo expose abuses and reflect upon the uneven distribution of the environmental crisis? In this project, I will research their alternative understandings of the causes of the crisis and how they articulate worldviews as responses to it. To do this, I will implement decolonial perspectives on environmental humanities within film studies and acquire innovative research skills.

Keywords:MEDIA, VISUAL CULTURE, ECOLOGY, FILM

Disciplines:Postcolonial studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology of arts, Intercultural communication, Political economy of communication, Visual communication, Cultural media, Film studies, Visual cultures