This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.
Author(s): Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan, Jeconiah Louis Dresibach
Series: Asia in Transition, 17
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 358
City: Singapore
Contents
Contributors
1 Introduction: Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia
1.1 Introduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Ecomedia Studies
1.2 Ecomedia, Environmental Communications, and Popular Culture: International Contexts
1.3 Ecomedia in Southeast Asia: Environmental Film
1.4 Eco-communication in Southeast Asia: Environmental Journalism
1.5 Overview of Chapters
1.6 Conclusion: Avenues for Further Research
References
Part I Activism, Indigeneity, and the Sacred
2 Wild Honey: Caring for Bees in a Divided Land
2.1 Making Wild Honey
2.2 Colonial Divisions
2.3 The People of Koba Lima
2.4 Borders and Boundaries
2.5 Bees: More-Than-Human Agents
2.6 The Role of Laku
2.7 Valuing the Harvest
2.8 Change and Continuity
2.9 Conclusion
References
3 Reading the Novel Sarongge Through the Eyes of Female Environmental Activists in Indonesia
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Sarongge and Environmentalism
3.3 Cognitive Praxis Perspectives
3.4 Activist Narratives
3.4.1 Gender Juxtaposition
3.4.2 Interpersonal Transformations
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Nguyễn Trinh Thi’s Letters from Panduranga: Filmmaking as a Practice of Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Vietnam
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Letters from Panduranga as a Practice of Postcolonial Ecocriticism
4.3 Letters from Panduranga as a Film in Search of Its Form
References
5 The Creaturely Plant? Sumatra’s Titan Arum and the Ethics of Botanical Time-Lapse
5.1 Introduction
5.2 “To Instill a Love for Them”: Historical Views of Botanical Time-Lapse Ethics
5.3 Embracing Plant-Time as Hetero-Temporality: Toward an Intermedial Vegetal Ethics
5.4 Imaging Titan Arum Anew: From Anthocentrism to Phytocentrism
5.5 Conclusion: Cinematographic Bodies In-Becoming
References
6 The Littoral Zone as a Guerilla Zone: The Hydroaesthetics of Revolutionary Music for Filipino Fisherfolk
6.1 The Politics of the Shore
6.2 Listening to the Songs of the Sea
6.3 The Fluidity of National Democratic Music
6.4 Navigating Aplaya’s Revolutionary Waterscape
6.5 Coda
References
Part II Political Ecologies and Urban Spaces
7 Death’s Capital: Urban Poor Political Ecology and the Aesthetics of Salvaging by the Nightcrawlers of Manila
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Urban Decay
7.3 Urban Poor Political Ecology
7.4 Salvaging Aesthetics
7.5 Humanity in Decay
References
8 Coal, Oligarchy, and the Indonesian Environment in the Documentary Film Sexy Killers
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Indonesian Politics and the Environment
8.3 Sexy Killers: A Game Changer?
8.4 Reading Sexy Killers and Its Contradictions
8.5 Conclusion
References
9 Political Ecology of Mangroves and Fish Farming in an Island Village in Central Philippines
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Social Character of Jandayan Norte: An Ecological and Demographic Profile
9.3 Fishing: Limited Grounds, Small Catch, Few Markets
9.4 Mangrove Forests and Brackish Water Fish Farming: Linked by Politics and Markets
9.4.1 Mangrove Forests (Katunggan): Property, Resource Decline, and Politics
9.4.2 Brackish Water Fish Farming: Mostly Idle and Abandoned
9.5 Conclusion: Toward a Political Ecology of Place
References
10 The West Philippine Sea Dispute and Meme-fied Fish on Facebook
10.1 In the Dead of Night: The Ramming of a Filipino Fishing Vessel
10.2 Fish Memes as a Protest Tool in the Philippines
10.3 Satirical Anthropomorphism as a Strategy
10.4 Humor Through Relatability
10.5 Meme-Fied Fish, the Human Gaze, and Objectification of the Non-Human
10.6 Concluding Remarks
References
11 Cinematographic Poetics in Contemporary Indonesian Poetry: Re-envisioning Human-Nature Interconnections in the Digital Age Through Afrizal Malna’s Anxiety Myths
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Contemporary Poetry and Experimentalism
11.3 Cinematic Montage as Ecopoetic Language
11.4 Cinematographic Poetics as an Interface Between Poetic Codes and Filmic Montage
11.5 Cinematographic Poetics as a Vision of Human-Nature Interconnectedness
11.6 Conclusion
References
Part III Discourses, Narratives, and Aesthetics
12 The Reporting of Environmental News in an English Language Newspaper in Brunei Darussalam
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Environment and Mass Media: Previous Studies
12.3 Research Methods
12.4 Understanding the Reporting of Environmental News in Brunei
12.4.1 Frequency of Environmental News in Borneo Bulletin
12.4.2 Environmental Issues Featured by Borneo Bulletin
12.4.3 Manner of Environmental Reportage
12.4.4 Linking to and Framing Climate Change
12.5 Conclusion
References
13 Climate Change Reporting in Vietnam’s Online Mainstream News Websites and Beyond
13.1 Climate Change Journalism in Vietnam
13.2 Framing Climate Change in Vietnam’s Three Popular Mainstream News Websites
13.3 Beyond the Mainstream: Climate Change Over Social Media in Vietnam
References
14 Maps in the Making of the Mekong Delta
14.1 Introduction
14.1.1 Brief History of the Mekong Delta
14.1.2 Maps as Ecomedia
14.2 The Map’s Natures
14.2.1 Surveyed Nature
14.2.2 Engineered Nature
14.2.3 Militarized Nature
14.2.4 Inherited Nature
References
15 Against DomiNation: Intersectional Aesthetics in Uruphong Raksasad’s Fictional Documentary Agrarian Utopia
15.1 Introduction
15.2 A Critical Interrogation of Thailand’s Agrarian Myth
15.3 Agrarian Utopia and the Political Situation in 2009
15.4 Intersectionality and Utopia
15.5 Relational Aesthetics and Holistic Filmmaking
15.6 Embedded Technology as Cinematic Ecosystem
15.7 Conclusion
References
Part IV Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands
16 How to Lose an Island: Singapore, Colonialism, and the Environment
References
17 National Disaster Imaginary: Mediatized Disaster and Filipino Subjectivity
17.1 Imagined Community and Mediatization
17.2 Historical Relationship between Media, Disaster, and Relief
17.3 The Filipino Subject Defined in Relation to Disaster Resilience
17.4 Media and the Filipino Disaster Subject
17.5 Conclusion
References
18 Archipelagic Choreography in Komiks: Movement and Intertwining Bodies in Emiliana Kampilan’s Dead Balagtas: Mga Sayaw ng Dagat at Lupa
References
19 National Ecologies, National Properties: Unframing Human/Nature Divides in Mikhail Red’s Film Birdshot
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Spatial Organization and Colonial Logics
19.3 Nature in the State Imaginary
19.4 Conclusion: Maya’s Flight
Reference
20 Escaping Paradise, Returning This Island: Representations of Siargao and Islandic Space in the Philippines
20.1 Siargao: The Island
20.2 Returning to the Island: The Traveler as Tourist
20.3 Reading Siargao
20.4 The Politics of Island Environmentalism
20.5 Conclusion
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