Maria Loftus
Biographic Data
| ID | 139523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Loftus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Loftus |
| SIGNATURE | LOFTUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3572-9347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fleshing Out the Invisible: Activating Social Empathy Through the Material
This article begins with the material—objects that hold stories, reveal histories, and provoke sensibilities. Ordinary Treasures: Objects From Home is a short film that foregrounds these materialities as a form of everyday activism (Chatterton & Pickerill, 2010), tracing how displaced individuals become visible through what they hold dear. In this cinematic work, international protection applicants and refugees craft an evocative narrative around…
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There is a place on the southwest edge of Ireland, where stone and sea touch in a constant ebb and flow of memory, history and landscape. Dingle, or An Daingean as it is in the local Irish language. A name that evokes myth and magic, conjuring not only the topography of its windswept cliffs and quiet, stony fields but also the sense of something larger - a pulse, a draw, something that carries you in
Spaces of teaching and (un)learning: Forced migration and volunteer-led English teaching
Kuxa Kanema: The rise and fall of an experimental documentary series in Mozambique
The subject of this article is the monthly documentary series, Kuxa Kanema (birth of the image) produced in Mozambique from 1978 to 1986. The series recorded the blind optimism that follows the parturition of a nation, articulates cinematographic formal invention, and documents the decline of Mozambique into civil war. It essentially traces the birth and death of a fledgling socialist democracy and the similar rise and fall of cinema itself in th…
The appeal of hybrid documentary forms in West Africa
The appeal of hybrid documentary forms in West Africa Maria Loftus Once political independence was achieved at the beginning of the 1960s, sub-Saharan African documentary filmmakers became guardians of colonial memory, preserving the past and transmitting its cultural heritage. They also documented the new historical path of their countries, working with the rudimentary means at their disposal, outside a developed film industry. The stakes were h…
Entretien avec René Vautier
Spaces of teaching and (un)learning: Forced migration and volunteer-led English teaching
Kuxa Kanema: The rise and fall of an experimental documentary series in Mozambique
The subject of this article is the monthly documentary series, Kuxa Kanema (birth of the image) produced in Mozambique from 1978 to 1986. The series recorded the blind optimism that follows the parturition of a nation, articulates cinematographic formal invention, and documents the decline of Mozambique into civil war. It essentially traces the birth and death of a fledgling socialist democracy and the similar rise and fall of cinema itself in th…
Entretien avec René Vautier
The appeal of hybrid documentary forms in West Africa
The appeal of hybrid documentary forms in West Africa Maria Loftus Once political independence was achieved at the beginning of the 1960s, sub-Saharan African documentary filmmakers became guardians of colonial memory, preserving the past and transmitting its cultural heritage. They also documented the new historical path of their countries, working with the rudimentary means at their disposal, outside a developed film industry. The stakes were h…
Kuxa Kanema: The rise and fall of an experimental documentary series in Mozambique
The subject of this article is the monthly documentary series, Kuxa Kanema (birth of the image) produced in Mozambique from 1978 to 1986. The series recorded the blind optimism that follows the parturition of a nation, articulates cinematographic formal invention, and documents the decline of Mozambique into civil war. It essentially traces the birth and death of a fledgling socialist democracy and the similar rise and fall of cinema itself in th…
Fleshing Out the Invisible: Activating Social Empathy Through the Material
This article begins with the material—objects that hold stories, reveal histories, and provoke sensibilities. Ordinary Treasures: Objects From Home is a short film that foregrounds these materialities as a form of everyday activism (Chatterton & Pickerill, 2010), tracing how displaced individuals become visible through what they hold dear. In this cinematic work, international protection applicants and refugees craft an evocative narrative around…
Forum
There is a place on the southwest edge of Ireland, where stone and sea touch in a constant ebb and flow of memory, history and landscape. Dingle, or An Daingean as it is in the local Irish language. A name that evokes myth and magic, conjuring not only the topography of its windswept cliffs and quiet, stony fields but also the sense of something larger - a pulse, a draw, something that carries you in
Spaces of teaching and (un)learning: Forced migration and volunteer-led English teaching
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)