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Open Invitation, The: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect (Illuminations) - Hardcover

Book 39 of 48: Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas

Schiwy, Freya

 
9780822965749: Open Invitation, The: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect (Illuminations)

Synopsis

The Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from the Yucatán. Schiwy argues that transnational activist videos and community videos in indigenous languages reveal collaborations and that their political impact cannot be grasped through the concept of the public sphere. Instead, she places these videos in dialogue with recent efforts to understand the political with communality, a mode of governance articulated in indigenous struggles for autonomy, and with cinematic politics of affect.

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About the Author

Freya Schiwy is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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