The Open Invitation

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The Open Invitation is written by Freya Schiwy and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822986671 (ISBN 10) and 9780822986676 (ISBN 13).

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.