Open AccessBUCHANS: A MINING TOWN: EXCAVATING ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION THROUGH CANADIAN DOCU-DRAMATURGY
Author(s) -
Aditi Vahia,
Devang Nanavati Mr.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
towards excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0974-035X
DOI - 10.37867/120301
Subject(s) - democracy , immediacy , dignity , globe , framing (construction) , political science , political economy , sociology , law , geography , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , politics , ophthalmology , archaeology
The figures that 1% of the richest possessing 44% of the world’s wealth in 2020(“Facts: Global Inequality”) evidently indicates the immediacy of addressing thehorrific economic gaps which have been irreversibly disrupting the socioenvironmental balances across the globe and within the national borders. Thispaper aims to have a broader view of the glocal implications of this scenario withthe help of a Canadian documentary experiment, which can be seen as microcosmof the macrorealities.It may be noted that the Canadian confederation was completed whenNewfoundland (in the milieu of which the action of Buchans takes place) joined itat last in 1949- which almost coincides with the constitutional re-formation of India.Like the industrially developing India, the economically developed Canada alsoaspires to follow democratic ideals and all-inclusive policies which can guaranteethe protection of the basic rights, needs and dignity of all human beings,irrespective of their socio-economic status.It would be interesting to see in this paper as to how Buchnas, a Canadiandocumentary experiment, brings to light the plights of the labor class working in thedarkest corners of the mines, and how the exploitative operations of a giant miningcompany shown in this play stands for the predatory gaze of all the profit-intensiveoperations that continue to exploit a huge part of humanity as well as the collectivenatural sources.