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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... economic migration that involves visas and work permits and also illegal human trafficking bound up with trans-European criminal networks. Thus far, Europe's complex and extensive networks of migration have been left relatively ...
... economic migration that involves visas and work permits and also illegal human trafficking bound up with trans-European criminal networks. Thus far, Europe's complex and extensive networks of migration have been left relatively ...
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... economic hardship, threats against their lives because of their political beliefs, or because of the complete destruction of their livelihoods, as their theatres have been destroyed by war or closed down. They specifically came to the ...
... economic hardship, threats against their lives because of their political beliefs, or because of the complete destruction of their livelihoods, as their theatres have been destroyed by war or closed down. They specifically came to the ...
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... economic migration. Ties have to be severed at the point of departure and remain so until the migrant is safe and legal in the new destination. Reconnecting with their families at the point of origin brought with it its own dangers as a ...
... economic migration. Ties have to be severed at the point of departure and remain so until the migrant is safe and legal in the new destination. Reconnecting with their families at the point of origin brought with it its own dangers as a ...
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... economic demands, and strategic alliances that transcend national provenance and power struggles within criminal networks. And so with language being the only method of achieving some form of networking for themselves, it was crucial ...
... economic demands, and strategic alliances that transcend national provenance and power struggles within criminal networks. And so with language being the only method of achieving some form of networking for themselves, it was crucial ...
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... . Oxford: Oxford University Press. —. 2004. Is all the world a complex network?, Economy and Society 33, 3: 411424. CHAPTER THREE BLACK SAINT PATRICK REVISITED: CALYPSO'S 'TOWER OF BABEL' Performing Global Networks 37.
... . Oxford: Oxford University Press. —. 2004. Is all the world a complex network?, Economy and Society 33, 3: 411424. CHAPTER THREE BLACK SAINT PATRICK REVISITED: CALYPSO'S 'TOWER OF BABEL' Performing Global Networks 37.
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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