The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect

by Freya Schiwy

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 Yucat n. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965747
• ISBN13: 9780822965749
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.0"