Brian S Roper's Blog: POLS 208 Democracy Video Screenings 2014

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POLS 208 Democracy Video Screenings

Video Documentaries

• Blade Runner - Opening Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hYs1jBy8Y

• Matrix Trailer HD (1999)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8e-FF8MsqU

• BSG The Final Battle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPbEvezZrWs

• A two minute introduction to Athenian democracy that correctly emphasises that it was a direct particiaptory form of democracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J315e03RkOA
• A brief introduction to the central features of Athenian democracy.
An informative brief introduction to the central features of Athenian democracy by
Professor Jeffrey Rusten from Cornell University in the United States.
http://www.cornell.edu/video/ancient-athens-5-the-heart-of-athenian-democracy-the-agora-and-the-pnyx

• A useful and informative introduction to the central features of Athenian democracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4euj6xjds

• Athens – Dawn of Democracy Part 1 & 2
This is less useful than the previous videos and is misleading in some important respects, but at least it does give you a sense of the geographical setting and the built environment of the ancient Greeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtn-BZH_xU0

• The Expansion of the Roman Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIXC1U8HNo

• The English Civil Wars
Although produced way back in 1992 this is a better video documentary than anything I've seen that has been uploaded to the internet. It is available in VHS format in the AV section of the university library.

Location:Dn: Central Library: AV Services: Videocassettes
Call Number: O98998

• Causes of the English Civil Wars, The Trial of Charles 1st.
These short videos are worth looking at for the background and the trial of the King.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3h_RyFEV0M&list=PL46EF350E7F5407DF

• The French Revolution
This video is not entirely accurate but it is mildy amusing and contains some useful visual material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvSod16wfgg

A much better video documentary (around 30 minutes in length), is presented by the middle-of-the road academic historian Gwynne Lewis. Unfortunately it is not available online, but it can be consulted in the AV section of the library or purchsed as a DVD.

The title is: The French Revolution.
The call number is O95138
The Otago library link is:
http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=5800&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=218093

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• US Constitution and Bill of Rights – 097616 (two videos, the first is on the Constitution and system of government; the second focuses on the Bill of Rights). 50 minutes each. Both boring but very useful provide useful descriptions of the US system of government by conservative American political science academics.

The title is:
The United States Constitution The United States Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments The call number is O97616
The Otago library link is:
http://otago.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=10084&recCount=25&recPointer=0&bibId=504523

• Milton Friedman - Redistribution of Wealth
Chicago and monetarist economist, Milton Friedman, providing a neoliberal justification of the unequal distribution of wealth in advanced capitalist societies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJwUaVDIPXg

• Hayek on Socialism
Friedrich von Hayek providing a brief critique of socialism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNbYdbf3EEc

• David Harvey on the Global Financial Crisis and Crises of Capitalism.
Animation of David Harvey providing a 10 minute oral outline of the Marxist analysis of capitalist economic crises.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

• Climate Change and Capitalism
• To access the 2014 major assessment report (AR5) by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), go to: http://www.ipcc.ch/

If you want to download the most important graphs and figures then go to: http://www.climatechange2013.org/report/reports-graphic/ch2-graphics/

• To access the 2007 major assessment report (AR4) by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
go to: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm

• Video showing thinning of Greenland polar ice based on international study using satellite data and photographs from the University of Leeds website.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GAhA8NBHZIo

• See also the British channel 4 news report on the study (2012) at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3336/

• Very interesting report on the 'carbon bubble' on the Guardian website. Highlights which stock exchange listed companies have the greatest carbon assets and the financial risks that they face if these assets become unburnable due to the introduction of more effective environmental policies addressing the causes of climate change. This also indicates just how powerfully motivated these companies are to lobby governments to prevent them introducting more effective environmental policies to counter global warming.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/apr/19/countries-exposed-carbon-bubble-map

• John Bellamy Foster gives lecture on capitalism and climate change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhFc9kdTRU&list=PL432220236CB86FAB

• The Russian Revolution

The most accurate video documentary on the Russian Revolution that I have been able to find on Youtube is in three parts at:

The Russian Revolution - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGrIwLj7gU

The Russian Revolution - Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpEaPxNW0g

The Russian Revolution - Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReH_vgrf-U

• Comparative Data on Democratisation- Polity IV and Freedom House

These are US research institutes sponsored by the US Government, including the C.I.A, and accordingly some of the assessments are biased, for example, South Korea is designated as being 'free' while Venezuela is only 'partly free'. Nonetheless, the data provided by Polity IV and Freedom House does give an indication of the growing global spread of representative democracy. http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-world

• The Centre for Reponsive Politics provides lots of interesting and useful data on the American political system, especially on how business exerts disproportionate influence.
http://www.opensecrets.org/elections/

Comparative Statistics on Gender Inequality
• UN Women provides lots of interesting and useful comparative data on gender inequality and women's participation in government.
http://www.unwomen.org/

The most recent (2011) Progress of Women report can be downloaded from:
http://www.unwomen.org/resources/progress-of-the-worlds-women/

The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics can be downloaded from: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/Worldswomen/WW2010pub.htm

David Held interviewed on globalisation, democracy, and the need for reform of the global order during the 21st century
Very interesting eight minute interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yng3R1t1Olk&noredirect=1

Videos on the Global Justice and Occupy Movements
• Dystopian Futures- A Compilation of Dystopic Sci Fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxkI4vPXlE

• Showdown in Seattle- 'This is what democracy looks like'. Part V of the Indy Media documentary on the global justice protests that successfully shutdown the millenium round of the WTO at the end of 1999. This sparked the dramatic growth of the global justice movement during the first half of the 2000s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYyCDE6dbDU&list=PLBA3384E63E9826B2&index=5

• Occupy Wall Street Video: Global Day of Action, 15OCT
Six minute video focusing on the protests of Occupy New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfXPCkXBqRE
• The Guardian: Occupy Protests Mapped Around The World
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/18/occupy-protests-map-world

• The Guardian: Images of the World Social Forum 2013 in Tunis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/gallery/2013/mar/28/world-social-forum-alternative-world-in-pictures?INTCMP=SRCH#/?picture=406383884&index=0

• A Twenty Year Programme of Neoliberal Fiscal Austerity?
British Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, said in 2013 that the cuts pushed through by the Coalition did not go nearly far enough. He said that there was a “very long way to go” and added: “This is not a two-year project or a five-year project. This is a 10-year project, a 20-year generational battle to beef up the economy in ways that we have not seen for many, many decades.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10156170/Twenty-years-to-fix-economy.html

Music Videos- Selected from a Wide Range of Alternative Music Genres

• First Aid Kit - Ghost Town

First Aid Kit - Ghost Town - YouTube

• First Aid Kit - Emmylou

First Aid Kit - Emmylou - YouTube

• The Go! Team - Doing it Right (Live)

YouTube - The Go! Team - Doing It Right (Live)

•Palma Violets - Best of Friends (Official Video)

• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings -BBC4 Sessions- Look At Miss Ohio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NPEj63d0jY

• Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk
• Mount Kimbie - Carbonated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRVwtSmgKP8
• Tiki and Pdigsss - Faded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Q-oAar5DY&feature=related
• The Veils - Turn From The Rain - Live at Abbey Road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6zkJRZDzME
• The Veils -The Letter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HoPNCiilf4
• The Veils - The Pearl - Live at Abbey Road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhGGjFHbyp8
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
• The Shins - Pink Bullets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XBabozrPGA
• Fly My Pretties - Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=LLgPTeTRjeI
• Fly My Pretties - Lie in the Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4imchwNegM
• Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

• The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cWzxJvgWc8
• Sharon Van Etten - Tell Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpP5IhnAaM&feature=endscreen&NR=1
• Sharon Van Etten - One Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=asucnxxX83w&feature=endscreen
• Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEVaniPOmU
Of Monsters and Men are from Iceland. As a New Zealander, or more accurately a person inhabiting this nationalist entity called 'New Zealand', among other things, a set of islands surrounded by a lot of water, I seem predisposed to like music from Iceland - another small country, also surrounded by lots of water. Geographical isolation has all sorts of disadvantages but it can also help to foster creativity and originality. Generally I like music best that doesn't make money but that is artistically interesting and provides soul food for all who listen. Nonetheless, although Of Monsters and Men are a bit too poppy and commercially successful for my tastes, I find myself liking this song and video quite a lot.
• Bats for Lashes - What's A Girl to Do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICkZWEzFGE
• Damien Jurado - Museum of Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCcAKNSJ3Ac
• Portishead- Roads (Live in New York)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52bAsZI9xm8
• First Aid Kit- New Year's Eve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSzPE5OOpw
• Of Monsters and Men- Little Talks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I
• The Pheonix Foundation - Gone Fishing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiemt9uq-54
• Die Die Die - Sideways Here We Come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV9f4w9SXEc
• Broken Social Scene - Meet Me In The Basement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiRjwpCrCMc

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POLS 208 Democracy Video Screenings 2014

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