Performing Global NetworksNetworks are everywhere: from migrant organisations to information technology, from business to social movements, from international governance to global non-governmental organisations, from theatrical collectives to fan clubs, from memory sites to narrative circles. The portmanteau terms networks, and more specifically, global networks, seem to have become the mots du jour in contemporary cultural and social studies. But what cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish: what is the work of these networks? This path-breaking collection follows Graeme Thompson's rallying cry for a clearer analytical approach to the ways in which networks are 'enacted, assembled, conducted, and performed.' In its thirteen chapters, scholars from a variety of fields - sociology, theatre and performance studies, peace studies, history, and musicology - as well as social and cultural activists, explore the multiple meanings of global networks and performance. |
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CHAPTER EIGHT OBSCENITY , EMPIRE , AND GLOBAL NETWORKS DEANA
HEATH Englishness , as Benedict Anderson has argued , was fashioned through
distance , namely through travel , colonisation , and exile , all of which served to ...
CHAPTER EIGHT OBSCENITY , EMPIRE , AND GLOBAL NETWORKS DEANA
HEATH Englishness , as Benedict Anderson has argued , was fashioned through
distance , namely through travel , colonisation , and exile , all of which served to ...
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The British Empire had thus come to serve as a vast network for the purveyance
of obscenity , not simply between ... national and international laws , to put a stop
to such trade , and attempts to do so had instead merely served to drive it ...
The British Empire had thus come to serve as a vast network for the purveyance
of obscenity , not simply between ... national and international laws , to put a stop
to such trade , and attempts to do so had instead merely served to drive it ...
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Since obscenity law served as a tool that vigilance networks used to discipline ,
popular culture and the state not only cooperated with such disciplinary
mechanisms but gradually altered the law to serve more governmental ends ,
what was ...
Since obscenity law served as a tool that vigilance networks used to discipline ,
popular culture and the state not only cooperated with such disciplinary
mechanisms but gradually altered the law to serve more governmental ends ,
what was ...
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| Title | Performing Global Networks |
| Editors | Karen Fricker, Ronit Lenṭin |
| Contributor | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Institute for International Integration Studies |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1847182046, 9781847182043 |
| Length | 235 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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