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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... Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin, that the research group responsible for the body of research on global networks presented here, was encouraged and funded. This collaboration brings together those working in disciplines like ...
... Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin, that the research group responsible for the body of research on global networks presented here, was encouraged and funded. This collaboration brings together those working in disciplines like ...
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... studies. This volume is quite clearly a product of the extraordinary current interest in network studies, but it is also an attempt to step back from the network fray to engage critically in what networks are (and are not) and what ...
... studies. This volume is quite clearly a product of the extraordinary current interest in network studies, but it is also an attempt to step back from the network fray to engage critically in what networks are (and are not) and what ...
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... studies by drawing attention to what Bert O. States has called '...the limit-problem of performance... [the fact] that we all are, in a manner of speaking, performers' (States 1996, 2). This led to a move away from traditional studies ...
... studies by drawing attention to what Bert O. States has called '...the limit-problem of performance... [the fact] that we all are, in a manner of speaking, performers' (States 1996, 2). This led to a move away from traditional studies ...
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... studies of what has become known as contemporary network society. It is the 'global' modifier that marks the contemporary network studies in which we participate as something new; these currents of anthropological, sociological, and ...
... studies of what has become known as contemporary network society. It is the 'global' modifier that marks the contemporary network studies in which we participate as something new; these currents of anthropological, sociological, and ...
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... studies scholars, historians, and sociologists – is the impossibility of quantitative research to account for experience, feelings, emotions, imagined communities, life-narratives and historic memory, which, as subjective data, cannot ...
... studies scholars, historians, and sociologists – is the impossibility of quantitative research to account for experience, feelings, emotions, imagined communities, life-narratives and historic memory, which, as subjective data, cannot ...
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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