Rhetorical documentaries and the Arctic: raising awareness about the destruction of a natural global common

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Polar Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/2154896X.2023.2205242

Sonia Pedro Sebastiao

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article aims to highlight the importance of raising awarenessabout the Arctic’s destruction and its consequences for humankind;sustaining that awareness can be promoted by rhetoricaldocumentaries. Awareness is a necessary departing point to fostersustainable citizenship and change behaviours. This change isneeded to preserve the Arctic and tackle global warming. Theauthor uses a humanistic interpretive paradigm to demonstrate thecontribution of the rhetorical documentary “The Last Ice” (2020)to raise awareness about the destruction of the Arctic, a naturalglobal common. The main conclusion pinpoints the media's role inrecognizing the need to listen, cooperate, and affect policy-making,turning it into a more unbiased and inclusive process since theyallow awareness raising among citizens. Rhetorical documentariesmay be a valuable resource to combine means to make theirvoice globally heard, enforcing the United Nations Declaration onthe Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and active sustainablecitizenship.

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修辞纪录片与北极:提高人们对全球共同自然资源遭到破坏的认识

本文旨在强调提高人们对北极破坏及其对人类后果的认识的重要性；保持这种意识可以通过叙事纪录片来促进。提高认识是培养可持续公民意识和改变行为的必要出发点。这种变化是保护北极和应对全球变暖所必需的。作者使用人文主义的解释范式来展示修辞纪录片《最后的冰》（2020）的贡献，以提高人们对北极破坏的认识，北极是一种全球性的自然现象。主要结论指出了媒体在认识到倾听、合作和影响政策制定的必要性方面的作用，将其转变为一个更加公正和包容的过程，因为它们可以提高公民的意识。修辞性文件可能是一种宝贵的资源，可以结合各种手段，在全球范围内发出自己的声音，执行《联合国土著人民权利宣言》（2007年）和积极的可持续公民身份。

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Polar Journal Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)

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期刊介绍： Antarctica and the Arctic are of crucial importance to global security. Their governance and the patterns of human interactions there are increasingly contentious; mining, tourism, bioprospecting, and fishing are but a few of the many issues of contention, while environmental concerns such as melting ice sheets have a global impact. The Polar Journal is a forum for the scholarly discussion of polar issues from a social science and humanities perspective and brings together the considerable number of specialists and policy makers working on these crucial regions across multiple disciplines. The journal welcomes papers on polar affairs from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities and is especially interested in publishing policy-relevant research. Each issue of the journal either features articles from different disciplines on polar affairs or is a topical theme from a range of scholarly approaches. Topics include: • Polar governance and policy • Polar history, heritage, and culture • Polar economics • Polar politics • Music, art, and literature of the polar regions • Polar tourism • Polar geography and geopolitics • Polar psychology • Polar archaeology Manuscript types accepted: • Regular articles • Research reports • Opinion pieces • Book Reviews • Conference Reports.