Exercise #4: Documentary Reflection
Instructions
For your fourth Exercise assignment, you will make connections between the environmental movement in the recent past and today by considering what you are challenged to learn from documentarians of that movement.
- Find a current or recent report in the mainstream or alternative media of an environmental topic or issue in your local or wider region. As you read/ hear about the issue, consider where you stand on it. Identify your position and your thoughts.
- Use the documentaries in this course unit to reflect on the role that civil disobedience has played in the history of environmentalism, researching one other recent example to defend your answer to the question of whether it works to bring positive change.
Use your research in the mainstream and alternative media from Activity 1 of this unit for this exercise Post the media links and your analysis. Aim for a minimum of 300 words.
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Submissions
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site
August 26, 2022 By: T00472990
The report that I decided to look at is “Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Herritage site”, which I found in the Environment and Society Portal. Vlachos, Alexandra. “Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2017), no. 1. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7738. The report speaks to the unique characteristics of Haida Gwaii and how it is known as Canada’s Galapagos where nature enthusiasts can merge with Haida Culture. The report explains the Haida’s frustration with large-scale resource extraction on their ancestral home and how logging was destroying the land. “According…
Exercise 4
August 11, 2022 By: Hstanhope
My position on this environmental issue is small and based on what feels right to me. I have taken previous education in indigenous history, and it has opened my mind to the horrors they have gone throughout with the Canadian government and how Canada come to be as a nation. It is downright shameful, and I do not think the Canadian government can start reconciliation when also having a part in the pipeline business, as it threatens the indigenous people’s way of life. This article is about the pipeline that is being built across BC that is funded by RBC…
Documentary Reflection
August 8, 2022 By: Mathew Semograd
Mathew Semograd Norman Fennema July 18, 2022 History 3991 Documentary Reflection Exercise Reflection #4 Since I started studying geography I have always had an interest in urban geography and how we as humans interact with the built environment. Another major interest of mine is art, particularly painting and photography, so this topic comes as no surprise when I read about the new design of the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG). The new building that is scheduled to open in 5years and is designed with the environment in mind. The new gallery is designed to be a net-zero building, meaning it will…
Documentary Reflection
July 22, 2022 By: Zoë
In 2018, the Tiny House Warriors, located in Blue River, British Columbia, built ten tiny homes and posted up near the start of the trans-Canada pipeline route and in other building zones to protest the pipeline that is to be built through Secwepemc territory and elsewhere. A CBC article I found that was published in April of 2020 talked about how four outsiders entered the Tiny House Warriors encampment, vandalizing their vehicles and buildings, threatening the protestors, and physically injuring one of the men. These events have made protestors worry that “as pipeline construction comes closer and as temporary workers…
Documentary Reflection
June 29, 2022 By: YANLEZI
With the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, researchers around the globe would join a scientist rebellion in April, staging strikes and occupations at universities, research institutions and scientific journals to demand that the community speak out forcefully against continued fossil fuel emissions to highlight “the urgency and injustice of the climate and ecological crisis.” Social scientist Professor Jorge Riechmann said that the prospect of ecocide, coupled with genocide, requires a strong social response. In this article, I believe it is necessary for scientists to unite to fight. [1]. Firstly, civil disobedience is more urgent than words to make…