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Between Streets and Screens
By Jacob Geuder
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Jacob Geuder ist Stadtforscher mit den Forschung Schwerpunkten soziale Bewegungen, digitale Medien und Stadtpolitik. Derzeit arbeitet er an der ETH Zürich und der Université de Neuchâtel. Zuvor war er in Lehre und Forschung an der Princeton University und der Universität Basel tätig, wo er auch promovierte. Geuder ist Mitbegründer des Vereins Stadt für Alle Basel.
A protestor beaten to the ground in Cape Town, indigenous activists threatened with eviction in Rio, teenagers shot dead by police officers on duty - How do we know about these incidents, which are otherwise rarely reported on? In the past decade, urban citizens recording videos as audiovisual testimony, thereby bearing witness to protests and police violence emerged as a phenomenon from cities across the globe. Who is filming these videos and why? Between Streets and Screens: Digital Video Activism and the Right to the City explores how digital grassroots video activism came about and how it is shaping the urban struggles.Jacob Geuder explores, focusing on Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro, how digital grassroots video activism came about in the 2010s. He asks how (digital) video activism as a form of bottom-up city making transforms urban struggles in the ¿Global South¿ and beyond. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre, he develops a nuanced ethnographic study that delves into the practices of ¿doing video activism¿ on the ground. The book examines how urban movements use digital media to expose police violence, amplify marginalized voices, and challenge neoliberal urbanism. The unequal distribution of attention across digital platforms, the role of gatekeepers, and the risks faced by videographers documenting state violence are part and parcel of the picture - reinforcing or redrawing social, racialized, and gendered boundaries inscribed in the urban spaces of Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. The book shows, how the concrete utopia of the right to the city is set in motion, when video activism is practiced in radically independent, collective, and emancipatory efforts.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
333
Release Date:
2025-10-01
Publication Date:
2025-11-30
Publisher:
Hase v.+Koehler Verlag
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
377581437X
ISBN13:
9783775814379
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Weight:
488 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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