What in the World? Series on poverty and globalisation.

[Pax]

A new six episode series called "What in the World" is starting on RTE1 tonight at 10.45.

The first episode is about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge and is called Three Years, Eight Months and Twenty Days in Kampuchea.
The series will be presented by Sean Óg Ó hAilpín.

The series will broadly be about poverty, inequality, human rights and neoliberal globalisation.

Should be of interest to some posters here.


What in the World?
Series examining poverty and globalisation. The first in a new series visits Cambodia to uncover the legacy of the genocide waged by the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979

http://www.activelink.ie/ce/active.php?id=2259

What in the World? A new six-part series for RTÉ on Globalisation, Poverty and Human Rights.

Survey after survey points to the centrality of television in framing people's understanding of the world. For the most part, however, this medium is
dominated by western perspectives and the voices of people in the majority world are seldom heard. 'What in the World?' provides a platform for those voices and brings us face-to-face with their daily struggles.

What in the World?
A new six-part series for RTÉ on Globalisation, Poverty and Human Rights.

This documentary series illustrates the human consequences of global economic inequalities and human rights contraventions by focusing on how people encounter these issues in their daily lives.

It is a hard-hitting political series that provides an unambiguous counterpoint to the complacency of current political perspectives. The corrosiveness of poverty and the consequences of the violations of human rights at individual, familial and community level are highlighted. Yet the series is defiant in tone as many of the people featured robustly challenge the sense of inevitability about the way in which the social and political world is constructed.

Three Years, Eight Months and Twenty Days in Kampuchea
- RTÉ One, Thursday 22 February
Genocide during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, its aftermath, and current strides towards justice and reconciliation.

Black Death in Dixie
- RTÉ One, Thursday 1 March
Racism and the death penalty in the United States.

Fish and Ships in Senegal
- RTÉ One, Thursday 8 March
Globalisation and the fishing industry in West Africa.

Coca: Leaf of Life?
- RTÉ One, Thursday 15 March
Forced eradication of the coca leaf in the Andes.

Dam Corruption in Kenya
- RTÉ One, Thursday 22 March
Western complicity in African corruption.

Not So Sweet
- RTÉ One, Thursday 29 March
Globalisation and land reform in the Philippines.

Funded by Irish Aid, RTÉ Television, and non-governmental organizations working in the majority world and by religious organizations with extensive missionary experience, this six-part series will be broadcast on RTÉ One starting on Thursday 22 February at 10.45 pm.
The series will be presented by Sean Óg Ó hAilpín.

For further information contact Peadar King at peadarking@eircom.net
or Mick Molloy at kmfproductions@eircom

- published 07 February 2007

[david]

Sounds good. Makes me almost wish I had a tv.

[jady88]

A new six episode series called "What in the World" is starting on RTE1 tonight at 10.45.

The first episode is about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge and is called Three Years, Eight Months and Twenty Days in Kampuchea.
The series will be presented by Sean Óg Ó hAilpín.

The series will broadly be about poverty, inequality, human rights and neoliberal globalisation.

Should be of interest to some posters here.


What in the World?
Series examining poverty and globalisation. The first in a new series visits Cambodia to uncover the legacy of the genocide waged by the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979

http://www.activelink.ie/ce/active.php?id=2259

What in the World? A new six-part series for RTÉ on Globalisation, Poverty and Human Rights.

Survey after survey points to the centrality of television in framing people's understanding of the world. For the most part, however, this medium is
dominated by western perspectives and the voices of people in the majority world are seldom heard. 'What in the World?' provides a platform for those voices and brings us face-to-face with their daily struggles.

What in the World?
A new six-part series for RTÉ on Globalisation, Poverty and Human Rights.

This documentary series illustrates the human consequences of global economic inequalities and human rights contraventions by focusing on how people encounter these issues in their daily lives.

It is a hard-hitting political series that provides an unambiguous counterpoint to the complacency of current political perspectives. The corrosiveness of poverty and the consequences of the violations of human rights at individual, familial and community level are highlighted. Yet the series is defiant in tone as many of the people featured robustly challenge the sense of inevitability about the way in which the social and political world is constructed.

Three Years, Eight Months and Twenty Days in Kampuchea
- RTÉ One, Thursday 22 February
Genocide during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, its aftermath, and current strides towards justice and reconciliation.

Black Death in Dixie
- RTÉ One, Thursday 1 March
Racism and the death penalty in the United States.

Fish and Ships in Senegal
- RTÉ One, Thursday 8 March
Globalisation and the fishing industry in West Africa.

Coca: Leaf of Life?
- RTÉ One, Thursday 15 March
Forced eradication of the coca leaf in the Andes.

Dam Corruption in Kenya
- RTÉ One, Thursday 22 March
Western complicity in African corruption.

Not So Sweet
- RTÉ One, Thursday 29 March
Globalisation and land reform in the Philippines.

Funded by Irish Aid, RTÉ Television, and non-governmental organizations working in the majority world and by religious organizations with extensive missionary experience, this six-part series will be broadcast on RTÉ One starting on Thursday 22 February at 10.45 pm.
The series will be presented by Sean Óg Ó hAilpín.

For further information contact Peadar King at peadarking@eircom.net
or Mick Molloy at kmfproductions@eircom

- published 07 February 2007

wOW SOUNDS LIKE A really unbiased show doesn't it?

[farnaby]

wOW SOUNDS LIKE A really unbiased show doesn't it?

Yeah, as soon as you see inequality equated with poverty, and all the horrendous consequences of poverty thus traced back to inequality, alarm bells start ringing. Doesn't look like the 'wealth needs to be explained, not poverty' theory will get much of an airing.

But if it genuinely shows the poor of the developing world arguing a case then good, better than the usual 30second soundbite from a disaster zone.

[Pax]

wOW SOUNDS LIKE A really unbiased show doesn't it?

The idea is that the mainstream media is already massively biased on a daily 24hr news-cycle basis. So I don't see the problem with a 3/4hr programme facilitating, soap-box style, the majority world opinion on the bountiful benefits of liberalisation and neoliberal globalisation squeezed into that 24hrs.

[farnaby]

Last night was good as a standard documentary about terrible events in Cambodia, but didn't exactly do what the press release promised, did it? It was about geo-political failure, nothing to do with globalisation or poverty. In fact the Khmer Rouge vision for the country was the extreme opposite of globalisation with worse results - state planning, zero international trade = extreme destruction and poverty.

It did remind of the parallels with today though - the UN failed, China and the US made matters worse pursuing selfish agendas.