Lived Reality in the Empty Spaces of Capital: Some Lessons from Video in Northern Canada
The image of the Canadian Arctic popularized in mass media representations is that ofvast barren tundra occupied by wild animals but otherwise sparsely populated by primitive and/or disenfranchised peoples. This image serves a useful ideological function for capital insofar as the rhetorical emptyin...
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ftfloridaclaojs:oai:ojs.journals.fcla.edu:article/76489 2023-05-15T14:57:27+02:00 Lived Reality in the Empty Spaces of Capital: Some Lessons from Video in Northern Canada Varga, Darrell 2011-10-14 application/pdf http://journals.fcla.edu/demcom/article/view/76489 eng eng Union for Democratic Communications http://journals.fcla.edu/demcom/article/view/76489/74118 Democratic Communiqué; Vol 20, No 1 (2006); 105 1555-8967 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2011 ftfloridaclaojs 2016-11-23T11:44:57Z The image of the Canadian Arctic popularized in mass media representations is that ofvast barren tundra occupied by wild animals but otherwise sparsely populated by primitive and/or disenfranchised peoples. This image serves a useful ideological function for capital insofar as the rhetorical emptying-out of this space facilitates its deployment in the interests of Empire - interests not necessarily reflective of either the local communities or of the environment-that is, of the lived reality. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Tundra Florida Online Journals (FloridaOJ) Arctic Canada |
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The image of the Canadian Arctic popularized in mass media representations is that ofvast barren tundra occupied by wild animals but otherwise sparsely populated by primitive and/or disenfranchised peoples. This image serves a useful ideological function for capital insofar as the rhetorical emptying-out of this space facilitates its deployment in the interests of Empire - interests not necessarily reflective of either the local communities or of the environment-that is, of the lived reality. |
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Lived Reality in the Empty Spaces of Capital: Some Lessons from Video in Northern Canada |
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Lived Reality in the Empty Spaces of Capital: Some Lessons from Video in Northern Canada |
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Union for Democratic Communications |
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