Document type
Book chapters
Title
On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Documentary Film and Philosophy
Participants in the publication
Graça P. Corrêa (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CFCUL
Summary
As early as 1949, Simone Weil used the term uprootedness to denote a condition where human beings lack living connections to their environment and community, and thereby are bereft of ties with their past and a sense of belonging in the world. In the past two decades this condition has been extremely aggravated, with large segments of the rural population relocating to crowded unsustainable urban areas, and mass movements of international migrants, refugees and asylum seekers fleeing away from their homelands, well after the violence of the colonial period.\nDrawing on works by philosophers Achile Mbembe, Bruno Latour, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski, whilst applying their concepts and perspectives to documentary film aesthetics, this chapter argues that current human uprootnedess—of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people—reveals a necropolitics in action that may be viewed ecocritically.
Editor(s)
M. Classon Frangos, S. Ghose
Date of Publication
2022-12-15
Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Where published
Refugee Genres
Publication Identifiers
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Collection
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
21
Starting page
133
Last page
153
Document Identifiers
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2_7
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2_7