"Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this book provides a range of focused audiovisual analyses of deltaic spaces which are under threat from human exploitation, environmental degradation, and rapidly accelerating climate change. Ranging across a variety of media, including documentary filmmaking, animation, photography, collaborative comic making, participatory visual art practices, soundwalking, and film analysis, it adopts a transdisciplinary approach to the Blue Humanities from countries across the world, including Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam"--
How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet? This book addresses this and related questions by adopting a local and transdisciplinary perspective on river deltas from different areas of the world.
River deltas have historically been hotspots for human civilizations, as populations settled in their fertile grounds seeking resources and opportunities for prosperity. Despite this, the terrains and livelihoods of those who rely on them are under threat from human exploitation, environmental degradation, and rapidly accelerating climate change. Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this book provides a range of focused audiovisual analyses of deltaic spaces. Ranging across a variety of media, including documentary filmmaking, animation, photography, collaborative comic making, participatory visual art practices, soundwalking, and film analysis, it examines the role that contemporary audiovisual media play in forging global environmental imaginaries. In doing so, it adopts a transdisciplinary approach to the Blue Humanities from countries across the world, including Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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A transdisciplinary collection of essays, this book examines a range of audiovisual culture strategies and practices employed by vulnerable communities, local artists, and international scholars in response to delta change and climate breakdown around the world, ranging across cinema, music videos, comics and more.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Delta lenses for terraqueous imaginaries and amphibious
livelihoods, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Angelos Theocharis
Part 1: Emergences
1. Tracks, traces, and signs: Multispecies justice in the river
deltas of Arctic Alaska and the Sundarban, Subhankar Banerjee and Finis
Dunaway
2. Collective ethno-graphic storytelling: The making of Delta Tales,
Beatriz Belo, Benoit Ivars, Franz Krause, Karis Gruben, Nora Horisberger,
Pamplumus, Sandro Simon, and Thant Myat Htoo
3. Picturing Bonbibi: Representations of the forest goddess and
climate change impact in the Sundarbans, Niki Black and Maggie Roe
Part 2: Flows
4. The Mangrove School Project: Untold stories of children from the
margins, Anindita Saha and Vinita Damodaran
5. Delta futures and the roles of water puppetry in the Red River
Delta, Vietnam, Maggie Roe and Niki Black
6. On the Brahmaputra Riverbanks: Making a documentary film about
vulnerability
and adaptation, Emilie Cremin
Part 3: Disappearances
7. Re-imagining the unimaginable in the Niger Delta, Sandrine Uwase
Ndahiro
8. Hazardous landscapes and environmental justice: Indigenous
documentary films from Eastern India, Sneha Krishnan and Nitesh Lohan
Part 4: Echoes
9. Seas of Silver: Songs to reduce plastic waste in Vietnamese
waterways, Lonán Ó Briain
10. Musical Mangrove: Community-based media making in the Sundarbans,
Elja Roy
11. Sonic explorations of Lake Vistonida and the Nestos Delta, Marinos
Koutsomichalis
Afterword: Material tales of adaptation and sustainability: Imagining future
Living Deltas, Andy Large
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Visual Culture Studies at Durham University, UK
Angelos Theocharis is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Media, Culture and Heritage at the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK
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