Uneven Development: Listening to the 'South', Listening to Vancouver

This documentary video starts with a young woman’s narration of a legend through what looks like a shadow puppet show. The video goes on to ask, “How has the spirituality of young women changed?” It features women sharing their thoughts and experiences to do with spirituality and their encounters with traditional indigenous knowledge. The women talk, among other things, about the gap between traditional knowledge of spirituality and [...]

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You are welcome to keep posting, but please keep it related to the themes of this class. You are especially encouraged to post brief summaries of your NGO analysis.  Go public with it!

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Post your questions (and answers) in the comments. A few of us were also talking about organizing some kind of Zotero party, so if you’re interested maybe we can set it up here.

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So a few months ago I discovered this plush Hasbro elephant named “Zambi”. I almost used the video “See what inspired project Zambi”  on the the site for my blog post… but couldn’t detach myself from it enough emotionally to be coherent about it (Click Zambi to follow a link to the page). The drawings [...]

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In this video the subjects speak out about “Bridging the Digital Divide”, meaning closing the gap between nations that do not have access to the iBridging the Digital Dividenternet compared to the nations that do. The subjects identify the need to construct a system that incorporates a global cooperation toward accessing information. Cooperation ensures that [...]

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This video is a new story titled “Demolition Dissidents.” Reported by Patrick Brown (CBC’s correspondent in Beijing), it tells the story of a group of neighbours who gather together to combat the demolitions that the Chinese government has ordered for their neighbourhood. The story places itself in the broader context of Beijing’s modernizing processes and [...]

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Summary: This TV commercial for Tim Hortons opens with an idyllic shot of Central American mountains, followed by images of indigenous farmers planting and harvesting coffee. Dan Schroeder, the president and CEO of Tim Hortons, explains the motivation behind the company’s Coffee Partnership program: one which claims to provide “the perfect conditions for growing better [...]

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November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and through videos, many people and organizations around the world are expressing their need to end the violence as well as the efforts they are undertaking to ensure that women have a safer world to live in. UNIFEM, in the Say No [...]

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The growing movement of Vertical Farming in large cities, this trend is slowly growing and becoming realized as a potential eliminator of dependency on fossil fuels for food transport into world urban centres. By being able to produce viable food growth networks in cities, we lesser the dependency on large use fields that are both [...]

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Participatory Filmmaking YouTube Video The video above features PV Sateesh, a professional filmmaker and advocate for participatory filmmaking. He describes his journey towards his involvement in this form of participation, and work with the Deccan Development Agency. His acknowledgement of the wide audience base that film can provide in India lead him to become so [...]

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