Ecodocumentaries

1. Introduction: The Ethics of Relationships in Social Documentaries
Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborah

Part I. Land, Food, Ethics

2.
In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation, and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence
Salma Monani

3. Transnational Perspectives on Land Ethics: Elemental and Not My Land

Pietari Kääpä

4. Communal Indian Farming and Food Ecology: A Reading of Timbaktu

Pat Brereton

Part II. Development, Waste, Ethics

5. Ecological Imperialism in the Age of the Posthuman: David Fedele’s E-Wasteland

Başak Ağın Dönmez

6. Wasted Humans and Garbage Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism
Chia-ju Chang

7.
Surviving Progress, Modernity and Making Sense of the Crisis in Nature
Divya Anand

Part III. Tree, River, Ethics

8. What is “A” Fig?
Nirmal Selvamony

9.
Elemental as Mythic and Existential Parable
John A. Duvall

10. The Possibilities of a River and a Ritual Dance: An Ecoethnographic Analysis of Kuttan Aarangottu Vayali’s Bhagavathy aattu

R Sreejith Varma, Swarnalatha Rangarajan

11. Eco-exoticism in Thorny Land: Invasion of Cheemakaruvel

Rayson K. Alex, K. Samuel Moses Srinivas, S. Susan Deborah

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Documentary, Ecology