Freya Schiwy
Biographic Data
| ID | 640238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freya Schiwy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freya |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiwy |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIWY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology
Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation. Sc…
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes - by Rappaport, Joanne and Cummins, Tom
Desalmados . Hipertextos Y Biopolítica en El Mundo De La Webserie Española
‘Todos Somos Presidentes/We Are All Presidents’: Democracy, culture, and radical politics
In light of recent discussions of Jacques Rancière's notion of the political in cultural theory and the ‘left turn’ in Latin America, exemplified in the election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous president, this essay discusses concepts of governance elaborated by Bolivian indigenous intellectuals and media activists. It engages in detail with three examples of thinking through what is arguably a broad de-colonial process: the work of the An…
Imagining La Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936 - by Hershfield, J
Digital ghosts, global capitalism and social change
This article traces the importance of colonial legacies for theorizing speculative capitalism by thinking from the use of digital media by indigenous social movements in the Andes. Indeed, rather than marginal to global capitalism, I maintain that indigenous peoples and media activists are at the forefront of experimenting with political and economic alternatives to capitalism. I argue that the racialized body remains tangible as digital media ar…
Digital media, cultural production and speculative capitalism
This collection of essays explores the interfaces between new information technologies, their impact on contemporary culture, and recent transformations in capitalist production. From a transnation
Indigenous Media And The End Of The Lettered City
Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, and Binary Thinking
The construction and performance of gender and gender relations has been paramount to the process of Decolonization. Gender has permeated the discourses and enactments of colonization and is an inseparable part of the casting of subjectivity through the coloniality of power. The notions of femininity and masculinity are themselves colonial constructs that have pressed more complex notions of gender, sexuality, and desire into a binary. The treatm…
Santa Rosa, the contested saint: An early attempt at constructing national hegemony in Peru
1999). Santa Rosa, the contested saint: An early attempt at constructing national hegemony in Peru. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 8, Culture and the State in Latin America, pp. 49-62
Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, and Binary Thinking
The construction and performance of gender and gender relations has been paramount to the process of Decolonization. Gender has permeated the discourses and enactments of colonization and is an inseparable part of the casting of subjectivity through the coloniality of power. The notions of femininity and masculinity are themselves colonial constructs that have pressed more complex notions of gender, sexuality, and desire into a binary. The treatm…
Indigenous Media And The End Of The Lettered City
Digital ghosts, global capitalism and social change
This article traces the importance of colonial legacies for theorizing speculative capitalism by thinking from the use of digital media by indigenous social movements in the Andes. Indeed, rather than marginal to global capitalism, I maintain that indigenous peoples and media activists are at the forefront of experimenting with political and economic alternatives to capitalism. I argue that the racialized body remains tangible as digital media ar…
Santa Rosa, the contested saint: An early attempt at constructing national hegemony in Peru
1999). Santa Rosa, the contested saint: An early attempt at constructing national hegemony in Peru. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 8, Culture and the State in Latin America, pp. 49-62
Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, and Binary Thinking
The construction and performance of gender and gender relations has been paramount to the process of Decolonization. Gender has permeated the discourses and enactments of colonization and is an inseparable part of the casting of subjectivity through the coloniality of power. The notions of femininity and masculinity are themselves colonial constructs that have pressed more complex notions of gender, sexuality, and desire into a binary. The treatm…
Indigenous Media And The End Of The Lettered City
Digital ghosts, global capitalism and social change
This article traces the importance of colonial legacies for theorizing speculative capitalism by thinking from the use of digital media by indigenous social movements in the Andes. Indeed, rather than marginal to global capitalism, I maintain that indigenous peoples and media activists are at the forefront of experimenting with political and economic alternatives to capitalism. I argue that the racialized body remains tangible as digital media ar…
Digital media, cultural production and speculative capitalism
This collection of essays explores the interfaces between new information technologies, their impact on contemporary culture, and recent transformations in capitalist production. From a transnation
Imagining La Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936 - by Hershfield, J
‘Todos Somos Presidentes/We Are All Presidents’: Democracy, culture, and radical politics
In light of recent discussions of Jacques Rancière's notion of the political in cultural theory and the ‘left turn’ in Latin America, exemplified in the election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous president, this essay discusses concepts of governance elaborated by Bolivian indigenous intellectuals and media activists. It engages in detail with three examples of thinking through what is arguably a broad de-colonial process: the work of the An…
Desalmados . Hipertextos Y Biopolítica en El Mundo De La Webserie Española
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes - by Rappaport, Joanne and Cummins, Tom
Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology
Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation. Sc…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Humanities (4 works)