CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Lakatos, Dora |
|---|---|
| Title | Seeing and (Dis)believing: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Discourse in Climate Change Documentaries |
| Summary | Climate change is one of the biggest global security threats we face today. However, climate change is also a feminist issue. This thesis supports this statement by looking at climate change documentaries through an ecofeminist lens. The aesthetic turn in International Relations has taught us that popular culture, including documentary films, can influence both audiences and international politics. How could we undo the environmental damage we have already caused if we do not try to challenge and dismantle the patriarchal, capitalist system of thought that created it? Ecofeminism can help us uncover the gendered, binary discourses that are communicated to us in our daily lives and provide an alternative way of thinking about the world we share. This thesis looks at two documentaries: An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim and Women are the Answer by Fiona Cochrane. I aim to analyze these films through an ecofeminist lens, in order to make sense of the messages that are consciously or subconsciously communicated to their audiences. |
| Supervisor | Strausz Erzsebet |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/lakatos_dora.pdf |
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