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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... campaigns and was among the first women to enter the medical profession in Britain. The marriage in 1847 of Margaret ... campaign that had begun in Britain as we discuss below. Marriage also brought her niece (and daughter of Elizabeth ...
... campaigns and was among the first women to enter the medical profession in Britain. The marriage in 1847 of Margaret ... campaign that had begun in Britain as we discuss below. Marriage also brought her niece (and daughter of Elizabeth ...
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... campaigns became organised. There are only suggestions of the workings of a network, for example, in the organisation of early speaking tours of women suffragists across Britain (some of the first examples of middle-class women speaking ...
... campaigns became organised. There are only suggestions of the workings of a network, for example, in the organisation of early speaking tours of women suffragists across Britain (some of the first examples of middle-class women speaking ...
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... campaign, one that sought the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. This set of legislation required any woman ... campaigns for women's rights, including the demand for the vote. So its initiators turned to a pious and charismatic ...
... campaign, one that sought the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. This set of legislation required any woman ... campaigns for women's rights, including the demand for the vote. So its initiators turned to a pious and charismatic ...
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... campaigns. The public face presented in such sources understandably sought to obscure or downplay internal tensions and disagreements. Here again, it is necessary to turn to the private papers generated by the intimate relationships ...
... campaigns. The public face presented in such sources understandably sought to obscure or downplay internal tensions and disagreements. Here again, it is necessary to turn to the private papers generated by the intimate relationships ...
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... campaign against lynching in the United States. She, too, looked to members of this kinship group for hospitality and for help in organising a speaking tour, while her standing and the importance of her campaign was endorsed by ...
... campaign against lynching in the United States. She, too, looked to members of this kinship group for hospitality and for help in organising a speaking tour, while her standing and the importance of her campaign was endorsed by ...
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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