Rosina Márquez Reiter, from The Open University, has shared with us this documentary, in whose presentation she is participating. On November 19th, she will also take part in an online discussion, which can be followed live at 11:00 a.m. Buenos Aires time (3:00 p.m. Madrid time).
This ‘Open University’ programme has been organised around the “Invisible economy: the art of the street trade” documentary release. It is an small-length documentary ( around 20 minutes) that approaches street vending as a communicative practice: how vendors draw on talk, gesture and performance to catch the attention of passers-by, build trust and earn a living in conditions of extreme precarity. It grows out of Rosina Márquez’s video-ethnographic research on, and with, street vendors and their communicative practices in the three cities.
The launch will take place as part of the panel discussion “The right to work on the street: street vending, human rights and the invisible economy”, at the Universidad de la República (Udelar), Montevideo, and will be streamed live on YouTube. Representatives of the three vendor organisations will be joined by REDESCA (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS) and Ivone Perazzo (Social Justice Institute, Udelar).
On Thursday, 19th of November, the discussion will be streamed in the following link:
