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China Blue
This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.
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Bitter Seeds
This film follows an Indian farmer whose situation becomes a microcosm of the conflict between Monsanto and rural people living in poverty in India.
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The Devil Operation
This film follows Father Marco, a priest who has earned a price on his head because of his opposition to Peru’s powerful mining companies.
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Katanga Business
This film examines a mine that acts as a microcosm for globalization; illegal and legal workers, local and foreign businessmen, and politicians all navigate the new alliances that modern Africa demands.
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Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes To Town
This film depicts the clash that occurs in a small American town when Wal-Mart wants to open a store there.
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“Main Objective: Don’t Starve”: Representations of Scarcity in Virtual Worlds
Although video games seem to be a product of a culture of abundance, they create challenges for their players by requiring them to negotiate conditions of lack, as can be seen in the recent rise in games that portray post-apocalyptic worlds in which scattered survivors have to scavenge for basic resources in barren environments and destroyed ecosystems.
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From Anti-Abundance to Anti-Anti-Abundance: Scarcity, Abundance, and Utopia in Two Science Fiction Writers
This essay looks at science fiction works by Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin from the 1970s in which visions of scarcity are both critiques of abundance and utopian gestures. Today, Ramírez argues, scarcity has lost its critical power.
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The Carbon Rush
This film explores the negative impacts of the multi-billion dollar carbon offsetting industry on those people who are most impacted but least heard.
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The End of Poverty?
This film criticizes the socioeconomic system of the Washington Consensus as being insufficient for overcoming global poverty, and argues that it is based on centuries of exploitation.
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Why Poverty? Land Rush
This award-winning documentary follows a controversial sugar development scheme in Mali. Some oppose its claims to offer inclusive development, and see it as a neocolonial venture.