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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... centre stage. Le Dernier Caravanserail dramatises the contemporary crisis of conflict migration by staging real-life testimony of illegal migrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East attempting to migrate to England; the ...
... centre stage. Le Dernier Caravanserail dramatises the contemporary crisis of conflict migration by staging real-life testimony of illegal migrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East attempting to migrate to England; the ...
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... centres to present themselves for medical inspection, this identification resting simply on the word of a member of the moral police force established for this purpose (Walkowitz 1980). Such inspections were intended to establish ...
... centres to present themselves for medical inspection, this identification resting simply on the word of a member of the moral police force established for this purpose (Walkowitz 1980). Such inspections were intended to establish ...
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... centres in both France and Australia, recording the testimonies of the dispersed. But they have gone further by again literally providing refuge for displaced actors. It is well known that a number of theatre artists from all over the ...
... centres in both France and Australia, recording the testimonies of the dispersed. But they have gone further by again literally providing refuge for displaced actors. It is well known that a number of theatre artists from all over the ...
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... centre in northern France. It also flits back and forth in both time and place to a refugee detention centre in Australia, and includes fleeting scenes of suffering in central Africa. And the final image is on the white cliffs of Dover ...
... centre in northern France. It also flits back and forth in both time and place to a refugee detention centre in Australia, and includes fleeting scenes of suffering in central Africa. And the final image is on the white cliffs of Dover ...
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... centres in Australia and more specifically in the Red Cross camp at Sangatte in Northern France. They were collected by Mnouchkine herself as well as by playwright Hélène Cixous and the late philosopher Jacques Derrida. These texts were ...
... centres in Australia and more specifically in the Red Cross camp at Sangatte in Northern France. They were collected by Mnouchkine herself as well as by playwright Hélène Cixous and the late philosopher Jacques Derrida. These texts were ...
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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