Farm Worker Futurism
In contexts where life chances are unequally distributed and farm-worker life expectancy disproportionately low, unions and their supporters have tried to mobilize media technologies to open spaces for farm-worker futures. Unions used visual technologies to project alternatives to existing social conditions, other worlds that transcend inequality and injustice here and now--in this life, not the next.
Cesar Chavez’s famous slogan--si se puede/it can be done—encapsulates the “speculative,” alternative world-building qualities of the farm worker movement, qualities that resonated with postwar decolonization and Third Worldist movements. Like the (inter)planetary perspective of many science fictions, the worlds that farm workers built were shaped by both local and global concerns.
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