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

• Published in: The Polar Journal
• Main Author: Sebastião, Sónia Pedro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Sustainable Citizenship; Documentary Studies; Frame Analysis; Human-centred Approach; Rhetorical Model; Arctic; Global warming
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/30669; https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2023.2205242

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. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion