Alastair Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Documentary Filmmaking and Multilingualism – A Dialogue on Practice
This interview explores Alastair Cole’s multilingual documentary filmmaking as a research practice that contributes to minority language rights, revitalisation, and ethnopolitical visibility. It argues that documentary cinema offers unique insights into linguistic hierarchies, code-switching, and the lived effects of language policy. Case studies such as Colours of the Alphabet and Iorram demonstrate how film engages with colonial legacies, educa…
On burning ground
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal's models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action on issues sparked by ecological crisis in Bolivia's Chiquitanía. Extremely fragile to anthropogenic action, the Chiquitanía is home to one of the world's largest dry forests, which is experiencing profound and recurrent wildfires. Responding to this on…
Language Lessons
Mitterrand and his past
Attali, J., Verbatim II. 1986–1988 (Fayard, 1995), 518 pp., 150 F, ISBN 2 35 9168 296 V Le Paige, H., Mitterrand: 1965–1995: la continuité paradoxale (Editions de l'Aube, 1995), 252 pp.,120 F, ISBN 2 87678 238 3 Mitterrand, F. and Wiesel, E., Mémoire à deux voix (Odile Jacob, 1995), 217 pp., 130 F., ISBN 2 7381 0293 2 Péan, P., Une jeunesse française: François Mitterrand, 1934–1947 (Fayard, 1994), 597 pp., 160 F., ISBN 2 253 13819 3 Webster, P., …
On burning ground
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal's models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action on issues sparked by ecological crisis in Bolivia's Chiquitanía. Extremely fragile to anthropogenic action, the Chiquitanía is home to one of the world's largest dry forests, which is experiencing profound and recurrent wildfires. Responding to this on…
Mitterrand and his past
Attali, J., Verbatim II. 1986–1988 (Fayard, 1995), 518 pp., 150 F, ISBN 2 35 9168 296 V Le Paige, H., Mitterrand: 1965–1995: la continuité paradoxale (Editions de l'Aube, 1995), 252 pp.,120 F, ISBN 2 87678 238 3 Mitterrand, F. and Wiesel, E., Mémoire à deux voix (Odile Jacob, 1995), 217 pp., 130 F., ISBN 2 7381 0293 2 Péan, P., Une jeunesse française: François Mitterrand, 1934–1947 (Fayard, 1994), 597 pp., 160 F., ISBN 2 253 13819 3 Webster, P., …
Language Lessons
On burning ground
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal's models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action on issues sparked by ecological crisis in Bolivia's Chiquitanía. Extremely fragile to anthropogenic action, the Chiquitanía is home to one of the world's largest dry forests, which is experiencing profound and recurrent wildfires. Responding to this on…
Documentary Filmmaking and Multilingualism – A Dialogue on Practice
This interview explores Alastair Cole’s multilingual documentary filmmaking as a research practice that contributes to minority language rights, revitalisation, and ethnopolitical visibility. It argues that documentary cinema offers unique insights into linguistic hierarchies, code-switching, and the lived effects of language policy. Case studies such as Colours of the Alphabet and Iorram demonstrate how film engages with colonial legacies, educa…
Art (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Collective action (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Cultural and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Documentary film (1 work)