Performing Global NetworksKaren Fricker, Ronit Lentin Networks 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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... Britain, and a fuller recognition, too, of some of their transnational dimensions. These reached backwards decades prior to the foundation of a national suffrage movement in the 1860s to the transnational movement to abolish slavery ...
... Britain, and a fuller recognition, too, of some of their transnational dimensions. These reached backwards decades prior to the foundation of a national suffrage movement in the 1860s to the transnational movement to abolish slavery ...
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... Britain and the USA, and the exchange of travelling ministers between the British and the American branches of the church; or support for the 'oppositional' stance of the Religious Society of Friends vis-à-vis the established order, and ...
... Britain and the USA, and the exchange of travelling ministers between the British and the American branches of the church; or support for the 'oppositional' stance of the Religious Society of Friends vis-à-vis the established order, and ...
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... Britain. The marriage in 1847 of Margaret Priestman, close friend as well as sisterin-law of Priscilla Bright McLaren, took her from Newcastle to Bristol. She remained in the south west after her second marriage, and now as Margaret ...
... Britain. The marriage in 1847 of Margaret Priestman, close friend as well as sisterin-law of Priscilla Bright McLaren, took her from Newcastle to Bristol. She remained in the south west after her second marriage, and now as Margaret ...
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... Britain (some of the first examples of middle-class women speaking from public platforms); or in the role played by their male kin in supporting the demand in parliament (Blackburn 1902). Fortunately, however, members of this family ...
... Britain (some of the first examples of middle-class women speaking from public platforms); or in the role played by their male kin in supporting the demand in parliament (Blackburn 1902). Fortunately, however, members of this family ...
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... Britain were voting for and serving on local government bodies some 50 years before the parliamentary vote was won. Their religious affiliation and the reputation of Quaker women for a retiring modesty made the women of this circle ...
... Britain were voting for and serving on local government bodies some 50 years before the parliamentary vote was won. Their religious affiliation and the reputation of Quaker women for a retiring modesty made the women of this circle ...
Contents
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CHAPTER FOUR | 52 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 67 |
CHAPTER SIX | 88 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 105 |
CHAPTER NINE | 139 |
CHAPTER TEN | 163 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 182 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 198 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 206 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 228 |
INDEX | 232 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 121 |
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