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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Page 10
... appears to the micro-historian to lead to an undervaluation of individual encounters, exchanges and idiosyncrasies. Scepticism regarding the deployment of general categories and theories underlies this position, a scepticism shared by ...
... appears to the micro-historian to lead to an undervaluation of individual encounters, exchanges and idiosyncrasies. Scepticism regarding the deployment of general categories and theories underlies this position, a scepticism shared by ...
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... appear to transcend localities. Much of the contemporary opposition to globalisation is expressed precisely as a defence of local communities and particularities. Such a concern is, however, misleading. There are also to be found ...
... appear to transcend localities. Much of the contemporary opposition to globalisation is expressed precisely as a defence of local communities and particularities. Such a concern is, however, misleading. There are also to be found ...
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... appear as such in the formal records of organisations, in movement literature, or in the internally-generated histories of campaigns. The public face presented in such sources understandably sought to obscure or downplay internal ...
... appear as such in the formal records of organisations, in movement literature, or in the internally-generated histories of campaigns. The public face presented in such sources understandably sought to obscure or downplay internal ...
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... appear and disappear. The sequence of performed scenes followed no identifiable pattern other than the creation of a cumulative effect of suffering, a nostalgic yearning for a lost home, and an almost naïve 28 Chapter Two.
... appear and disappear. The sequence of performed scenes followed no identifiable pattern other than the creation of a cumulative effect of suffering, a nostalgic yearning for a lost home, and an almost naïve 28 Chapter Two.
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... appear inversely related and throw into relief the privileged global position of mainstream Irish theatre that is cultivated for export under the auspices of Culture Ireland. The impact of globalisation on Irish culture can only be ...
... appear inversely related and throw into relief the privileged global position of mainstream Irish theatre that is cultivated for export under the auspices of Culture Ireland. The impact of globalisation on Irish culture can only be ...
Contents
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8 | |
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38 | |
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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