Thank you for the replies to my question about Whaling videos. The responses are listed below. I ended up using the Discovery Channel Blood and Water in my class yesterday and it was great. It's a bit odd to navigate at first because it's supposed to be interactive, so it's about a 20 minute video broken into parts, but the students really got a lot out of it and it started a good discussion as a prelude to my lecture about the IWC.
Thanks! Shannon The Cove is an activist-social movement focused documentary on dolphin culling, but it features the IWC quite a bit I teach a global environmental politics course, and I found this documentary on YouTube that has some great footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmltHxvz94. It's in twelve parts, so you have to click through. It's called "A Greener Shade of Whale" (which is beyond terrible as a title) and I've never been able to get a physical copy. I often show the 7th and 8th segments, where they discuss the changing composition of the IWC and interview some of the key delegates. The interviews with the Canadians and Icelandic representatives are particularly useful, I find. Discovery Channel has just recently put up quite a nice interactive 'webumentary' which does give a broader historical perspective: http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/whale-wars/blood-and-water.htm I did find a great Ted Talk (15 minutes) about the state of marine life by a National Geographic underwater photographer that I thought I'd share - hits the highlights of overfishing, climate change etc... http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_skerry_reveals_ocean_s_glory_and_horror -- Shannon K. Orr, Ph.D. Associate Professor Graduate Coordinator (MPA) 118 Williams Hall Department of Political Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 (419)372-7593 [email protected] ________________________________ From: Shannon Orr <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:39:24 -0500 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Whaling video Dear Gep-ed, I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a short video about whaling to show in class. Most of the ones I've found have been activist footage, but I was wondering if there was something out there that included more of the background of the IWC as well. I did a search but I didn't come up with much. I did find a great Ted Talk (15 minutes) about the state of marine life by a National Geographic underwater photographer that I thought I'd share - hits the highlights of overfishing, climate change etc... http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_skerry_reveals_ocean_s_glory_and_horror As always I'll compile the responses off list and send them to the group. All the best, Shannon -- Shannon K. Orr, Ph.D. Associate Professor Graduate Coordinator (MPA) 118 Williams Hall Department of Political Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 (419)372-7593 [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
