POLS 208 Democracy Music Videos 2019

I play music videos before my lectures. They are drawn from a fairly broad range of alternative musical genres. Most are contemporary but some are classics from the decades from the 1960s to the present. I will also been screening music videos suggested by students doing the paper. I will update this blog weekly during the course of Semester Two, 2019.

Tuesday Sept 24 links:
• Bjork - Hyperballard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY5JL8DCF0
• Tiki Taane - Dub Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-xlCFhdjk


Tuesday Sept 10 links:

• Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3iSglbZUM

• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

• Rusian Revolution Video Documentary:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VldXUyCaeQ

Pre-Lecture 1
• Jamie xx - Loud Places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9luRtEqjc
• Arcade Fire - Ready to Start 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNn6mimskt0

Pre-Lecture 2
• PJ Harvey - The Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ReW0jJkag8
• Courtney Barnett - History Eraser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_G5PlEXdk
 
  Pre-Lecture 3
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - There She Goes (My Beautiful World)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCLqNepagg 
• Big Thief - Masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacUgWXrqwc

• Sharon Van Etten - One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asucnxxX83w 

• Belle and Sebastian - Party Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vS1Hf3CVGs

Pre-Lecture 4
• Daughter -Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QT5eGHCJdE

• Palma Violets - Best of Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poFXWUTEs1k


Pre-Lecture 5   
• Waxahatchee - Under a Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNJOUIA_rDI
 • Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pgv6dKV03dA

Pre-Lecture 6
• Yumi Zouma - Barricade (Matter of Fact)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpXasGS7D0
• Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I

Pre-Lecture 7
• Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Live at Glastonbury 2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeVUvA_BOzs
• First Aid Kit - Emmylou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC57z-oDPLs&ob=av2e
 
Pre-Lecture 8
• New Order - Bizarre Love Trinagle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEBuqkkQRk 
• Lady Lamb - All I Really Want to Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=780dZ5ou4jM 
• Future of the Left - 'sheena is a t-shirt salesman' 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcD2cqNT1bQ 

Pre-Lecture 9
• Fly My Pretties - Lie in the Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4imchwNegM&list=RDA4imchwNegM&index=1
•Shapeshifter - Monarch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4P4XNLE8cU

Pre-Lecture 10
• The Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclhwQKlgfw
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

Pre-Lecture 11
• Florence and the Machine - Hunger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHXEGz3PJg

• Sunflower Bean - Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13hhqEpxMwI 

• Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner Live at Woodstock 69
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKvnQYFhGCc
• Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3iSglbZUM

Pre-Lecture 12
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Table for One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6k0vEBdlG0 

• Courtney Barnett and Billy Bragg - Sunday Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yg6xDAekPI
• Radiohead - No Surpises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxyXg

Pre-Lecture 13
• Cat Power - Lived in Bars  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGgGW1ZalY&nohtml5=False 
• The Decemberists - Rise to Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1Mmr6kHpA
• Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nr1nNC3ds
 
Pre-Lecture 14

• Yumi Zouma - Catastrophe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSX3_qTcQEM
• The National - I Need My Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Tod1_tZdU
• The Coup - The Guillotine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

Pre-Lecture 15

• Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9E0mC9Cwk  

• Slowdive - Allison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkM3M3zGcGE 

• Slowdive - Star Roving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCih4OavoY

• The Uncluded - Declicate Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHYhzg8QWbI 

Pre-Lecture 16 
• The Big Moon - Cupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6t3vNfl85E
 • Valerie June - Shakedown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6t3vNfl85E

Pre-Lecture 17

• Patti Smith - People Have the Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPR-HyGj2d0

Pre-Lecture 18
• Alistair Hulett - The Internationale (English/Irish version with lyrics) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTbashsKic
• The Go Team! - Buy Nothing Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4f_lgdYz8

Pre-Lecture 19

• Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk
• Arcade Fire - Wake Up (Live Reading Festival 2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7T87WNs_Ag 
 
Pre-Lecture 20
• Little Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TV_128Fz2g
• Meg Baird - Don't Weight Down the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL88DC9WwI


Pre-Lecture 21
• PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBZZ3uvimE

Pre-Lecture 22
• Pavement - Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRBYrYj144 
• Bjork - Hyperballard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY5JL8DCF0
• Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxwAPBxc0lU


Pre-Lecture 23
• The Magnetic Fields - 83 Foxx and I
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWw_w9loIU


  Pre-Lecture 24
 • Valerie June -Working Woman Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ywuF-N8xXQ


Pre-Lecture 25
• Pavement - Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRBYrYj144 

• London Grammar - Wasting my Young Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkeDBwsIaZw

•Lady Lamb - The Nothing Part II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4I58bKX0A

Pre-Lecture 26
• Akala - Find No Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjvUMr1-AAU
• Arcade Fire - Ready to Start 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNn6mimskt0
• Tiki Taane - Dub Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-xlCFhdjk 

2019 Songs Recommended by Students doing POLS 208 Democracy

Yuno - No Going Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6berpWICtA 

Nick Cave - There she goes my beautiful world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCLqNepagg 

 



 

POLS 208 Democracy Videos and Links 2019

POLS 208 Democracy Videos and Links

Video Documentaries

• Titanic - 'I'm Flying!'.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPoMFB0FjYg

• Blade Runner - Director's Cut Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIstljYkwjg

• Matrix Trailer HD (1999)

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

• Snowpiercer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5PwfEMBM0
• Dystopian Futures- A Compilation of Dystopic Sci Fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxkI4vPXlE

• The Edge of Tomorrow (Live, Die, Repeat)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLe_qO4AE-M

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Athenian Democracy: Videos and Links

• An excellent animated map that outlines the key features of the Athenian democracy in around 4 minutes.
http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome09/3c_athenian_democracy_demo.php


• A two minute introduction to Athenian democracy that correctly emphasizes that it was a direct participatory form of democracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J315e03RkOA 


• A useful and informative introduction to the revolutionary creation and central features of Athenian democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6KjOTABL3Y

• A brief introduction to the central features of Athenian democracy.
Less interesting than the videos listed above but still worth watching. A 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


• 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuWiwph1xk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ngatYkLARA

• English left-wing comedian - Mark Steel - providing an account of Oliver Cromwell and his role in the English Revolution in a BBC production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjLHcpsvkc

• Short useful overview by an American history teacher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAo0rljTTwU 

• Longer video doc from the BBC on the last pahse of the English Revolution
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mtl57 

• 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 music video by Jeffrey Lewis that outlines the timeline of the French Revolution in 2 and a half minutes!
http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution/videos/the-french-revolution 

- 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.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=OTAGO_ALMA21130226340001891&displayMode=full&vid=DUNEDIN&group=GUEST&onCampus=true&lang=eng

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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRpEV2tmYz4

• 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 

• Marx in Soho performed by Brian Jones
This play provides both a genuinely amusing and accurate account of Marx's life and central ideas. Well worth watching. Learn stuff and have a good laugh while doing so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2baw7stI6U 

•  Climate Change and Capitalism

• In October 2018, the IPCC released a special report - Global Warming of 1.5 degrees. It can be downloaded from: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

• 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/ 

• "2012 Record Low Artic Ice Sheet". The Arctic ice cap is melting at a rapid rate and may shrink to its lowest-ever level within weeks as temperatures continue to rise. Al Jazeera's Nick Clark joined an expedition travelling deep into the Arctic Circle to Qaanaaq, in Greenland. Three minute report on the melting of the Arctic ice caps. Well worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwwBcdmT8tc

• 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 

• Really interesting article in The Guardian: "The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests." 
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change

• The Guardian provides an interesting update on this in 2019:
"The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.

New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions


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

• Climate Central - a US based research foundation - has an interactive 'Surging Seas' map that allows you to see the degree of encroachment on land of sea level rises.
http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/

•  Loss of Biodiversity Crisis
• Very useful set of articles on the loss of biodiversity from The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/03/stop-biodiversity-loss-or-we-could-face-our-own-extinction-warns-un 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/10/frightening-number-of-plant-extinctions-found-in-global-survey 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/24/survival-of-natural-world-is-in-balance-says-wildlife-chief 

•  The Russian Revolution

The most accurate short (20 minutes long) video documentary on the Russian Revolution that I have been able to find currently (2016) available on Youtube is:

Timeline: The Russian Revolution - by British socialist John Rees - produced as part of a historical 'timeline' series of historical documentaries produced by Islam TV in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VldXUyCaeQ

Lenin - What is Soviet Power?

Five minute speech by Lenin with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l53FPENoAU

Another interesting short speech by Lenin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_EcpFLmUaU 

•  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/polityproject.html
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 

The World's Women 2015: Trends and Statistics can be downloaded from: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/worldswomen.html

• Statistics New Zeland bar graphs describing female representation in parliament and local government from 1996 to 2014 can be found at: 
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/snapshots-of-nz/nz-social-indicators/Home/Trust%20and%20participation%20in%20government/female-rep-parl-local-govt.aspx

David Held interviewed on globalisation, democracy, and the need for reform of the global order during the 21st century
Very interesting eight minute interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Y4f1c6VSI
 

Videos on the Global Justice and Occupy Movements

• 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


• 2019 Climate Strike/Justice Movement
• Eight minute video coverage of climate justice protests in London in September 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sPGKCzKYq8&feature=youtu.be 

• Coverage from The Guardian of September 2019 climate justice protests.
"Six million people have taken to the streets over the past week, uniting across timezones, cultures and generations to demand urgent action on the escalating ecological emergency.

A fresh wave of climate strikes swept around the globe on Friday with an estimated 2 million people walking out of schools and workplaces.
Organisers say that during the week of protests – that began with a global climate strike last week – a total of 6 million people, from trade unionists to schoolchildren, have taken part in thousands of towns and cities."


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/27/climate-crisis-6-million-people-join-latest-wave-of-worldwide-protests 

• Greta Thunberg: the speeches that helped spark a climate movement 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=zKTQW5i9_p8 

• How the climate strike travelled around the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=47&v=1cXgCR_dAzA 

The Labour-led Government's Fee-Free Policy for Tertiary Education

Is Labour about to renege on its fee-free policy for tertiary education? Looks like it might happen at some point during this or the next term (if the Government is re-elected), and here is why it would be wrong for it to do so.

I'm currently updating my research on tertiary education policy by reference to the Government's Budget 2019 which will be made public on May 30th. You may remember Labour's election promise that involved "Accelerating the three years' free policy, starting with one year fees free full-time equivalent for everyone starting tertiary education or training for the first time from 1 January 2018, and extending this to three years’ free by 2024." 

Yet today according to a Stuff article, "Finance Minister Grant Robertson appeared to leave the door open to cancelling an extension of the scheme to further years of free education in 2021." https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/112710129/low-enrolments-sees-200m-clawed-back-from-fees-free-scheme?fbclid=IwAR2ciEZYP4X5tk6wMRcn57H1XmyfYESjRqMc-d9YnV8BxlYy8FynwLii8M0

The justification of this is supposedly based on 'big data' that indicates that there hasn't been the expected increase in students enrolled in tertiary education. This is contestable, with some data suggesting it has helped to arrest the decline in student participation, but more fundamentally it ignores the basic fact that during the period from 2005 to 2017, when fees increased substantially and there were large cuts to student support, there was a very large decline in domestic student participation in tertiary education (partially offset by a substantial increase in international student numbers during the same period).

To be absolutely clear: rising fees, debt, and declining student support had the following effect: With respect to domestic participation, ‘In 2016, 12 percent of the population aged 16 to 64 years participated in tertiary education, compared to 16 percent in 2006’ (MoE, 2017a: 4). In a related data series, the total participation rate of domestic students declined from 12.5 percent of the total population in 2008, the year that the Fifth National Government was elected, to 9.4 percent in 2016. The total number of domestic tertiary students enrolled in public institutions declined by 94,031 students from 452,631 in 2005, to 418,319 in 2008 to 358,600 in 2015 (Shaw, 2017: 19).

It is entirely reasonable to contend that making the first three years of tertiary education fee-free and substantially increasing student support would eventually lead to a large increase in student participation. The counter-argument is very weak but backed by Treasury, Business NZ, the New Zealand Initiative, and the National Party. Will Labour cave or honour its election promise?
For deeper analysis (and references) see my article: "Neoliberalism's War on New Zealand's Universities" in New Zealand Sociology 33(2) 2018: 9-39.