The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822965749)

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.

Author: Freya Schiwy
ISBN-10: 0822965747
ISBN-13: 9780822965749
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2019
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d