Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires
分析了两部关于澳大利亚‘黑色夏季’丛林大火的纪录片，探讨它们如何揭示政策失败、应急服务影响及社区韧性，为组织学者提供研究启示。
the Australian South-East coast was engulfed by bushfires on an 'unprecedented' scale.Media were quick in referring to the events as a 'crisis' and criticizing the inability of government to effectively respond.In particular, two featurelength documentaries have explored different aspects of the 'Black Summer' bushfires and their impact: Eva Orner's Burning focuses on the policy failures of Australian federal politicians to confront climate change over the last decade, and the enormous cost of these failures for bushfire-affected communities.Justin Krook and Luke Mazzaferro's A Fire Inside highlights especially the impact of the crisis on firefighters and emergency services, and explores themes such as volunteerism, trauma, and community resilience.In 1926, pioneering film maker John Grierson famously coined the term 'documentary' and defined it as an exercise in 'creative treatment of actuality', emphasizing its ability to challenge our perspective on reality through the artistry of film and the curation of a specific 'gaze'.