‘Why don’t they show those on TV?’: documentary film festivals, media and community

Deriving a theory of learning from social movement practices

“…Beginning with Engeström's first question of who the learning participants in movements are, the research studies in our review focused on the learning of members (e.g., Martin, 1988;Vea;, whom we identified as activists who organise the movement, participants (e.g., Lee 1993;Ollis & Hamel-Green, 2015), whom we identified as people who join the movement, and finally the public who observe the movement from the outside. Few scholars (e.g., Church et al, 2016;Díez-Gutiérrez & Díaz-Nafría, 2018;Roy, 2012) have considered the public in terms of SML research. When they have considered the public, it has been in the form of visitors or the audience of social justice events such as film festivals.…”

“…Last is community development and engagement. Examples include forming alliances (Walter, 2007), exercising solidarity (Ollis & Hamel-Green, 2015;Roy, 2012;Woodin, 2007), and building community (Harris, 2002;Serrat et al, 2016;Woodin, 2007). Working in movements gave members social support, which enabled them to communicate with neighbours and officials.…”