For the "peer review" exercise, I viewed the first blog posts of Andrew, Tatiana, and Katie. In all their blogs, I ended up reviewing the post that spoke of the "A New World is Possible" documentary that we viewed in the first few days of class.
Andrew's Blog talked about the festival as a whole, focusing mainly on the aspects of performance as power within the festivals. He aptly highlighted the effective use of different cultural aspects to try and drive home the issues at hand.
Tatiana's Blog spoke about the World Social Forum in the idea that it was overshadowed by so many other things that Western society seems to find important. A very interesting take about the acknowledgement of the obvious bias when it comes to seeing social issues in a Western gaze.
Katie's Blog took time to focus on the issues with farmers according to the World Social Forum gathering of 2002. She brings to light her own opinion about how we see native farmers according to a Western gaze. She acknowledges the issues associated with farmers trying to stay loyal to natural ways.
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