Sandra Ristovska Wins ICA ACSJ Outstanding Book Award

Our Fellow Sandra Ristovska has been awarded with the ICA Activism, Communication & Social Justice Outstanding Book Award 2022 for her book Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession.

The award honors the best book on themes central to the mission of the Activism, Communication & Social Justice Interest Group of the International Communication Association, published in the past two years.

In Seeing Human Rights, published by the MIT Press, Sandra Ristovska argues that video activism utilized by human rights groups is becoming a proxy profession that uses human rights videos to tap into journalism, the law, and political advocacy. Ristovska explains that this proxy profession retains some tactical flexibility in its use of video while giving up on the more radical potential and imaginative scope of video activism as a cultural practice.