We are very pleased to announce that Delhi 2.5, one of three films produced as part of our project, will have its UK premiere at ‘The British Academy Summer Showcase 2023’ in London. The film examines the devastating health impacts of air pollution in New Delhi, foregrounding the experiences of the city’s younger generation. It has been produced by Amit Bose and Siddharth Subramanian (https://www.metromedia.works/) with the ‘Storytelling for Environmental Change’ project team, Dr Pawas Bisht (Keele; PI), Dr Sabina Kidwai (Jamia Millia Islamia; CoI), Dr Eva Giraud (Sheffield; CoI) and Dr Sudeshna Devi (Research Assistant) acting as supervising producers.
Dr Pawas Bisht, will also be contributing to a panel on ‘How Art Helps Us Envision the Climate Crisis‘ alongside artist Emma Stibbon as part of the showcase launch on 15 June 2023. The panel will be chaired by Prof Julia Black, President of the British Academy.
Dr Pawas Bisht is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Communications and Culture, Deputy Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, and Programme Director for the MA Global Media programmes at Keele University. He is an experienced media researcher and documentary filmmaker and has previously worked for leading institutions in the UK (Loughborough and Leicester) and India (AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia). His research focuses on media and cultural politics in relation to environmental activism, cultural memory, and public mobilisations of documentary storytelling. Pawas is currently leading ‘Storytelling for Environmental Change’, a two-year research project (2021-2023) that mobilises environmental storytelling to tackle the catastrophic challenge of urban air pollution confronting India (funded by the British Academy's Humanities and Social Sciences’ Tackling Global Challenges Programme, supported under the UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund). His earlier ethnographic research on social movements and memory-work in relation to the Bhopal Gas Disaster has been published in leading journals including Media, Culture & Society and Contemporary South Asia.
His films have been shown on Channel 4 (UK), CNBC, and Doordarshan (India’s national public service broadcaster) as well as in art venues in UK, India, US, and Europe. They include work commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Environment Facility. Recently produced films include 'Back to the Drawing Board' (2017), a portrait of the British designers Pat Albeck and Peter Rice, ‘Memory Archipelago’ (2018), an examination of the politics of Gulag memory on the Solovetsky Islands in Russia’s Far North, and ‘(Not) Acting Our Age’ (2019), examining ageing, theatre and creativity.
Pawas is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.
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