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

Analyses indigenous activist video from southern Mexico with a focus on the 2006 Zapatista-inspired uprisings. Freya Schiwy argues that transnational activist videos and community videos in indigenous languages reveal collaborations and places these videos in dialogue with recent efforts to understand the political with communality.

About the author

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

Summary

An Analysis of Activist Videos from Southern Mexico

Product details

• Authors: Freya Schiwy
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780822965749
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6574-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Pitt Illuminations; Pitt Illuminations; Illuminations
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science