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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... identity, mode of self observation, and history' (Fuchs 2001, 269). The resulting selfsimilarity – not necessarily consensus or agreement – means that a working network focuses attention on itself, distinguishes its identity from other ...
... identity, mode of self observation, and history' (Fuchs 2001, 269). The resulting selfsimilarity – not necessarily consensus or agreement – means that a working network focuses attention on itself, distinguishes its identity from other ...
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... identity by examining the identifications of Ireland-based fans with the Eurovision Song Contest, a site at which conceptions of panEuropean and individual national identities merge and sometimes clash. Fricker, Moreo, and Singleton's ...
... identity by examining the identifications of Ireland-based fans with the Eurovision Song Contest, a site at which conceptions of panEuropean and individual national identities merge and sometimes clash. Fricker, Moreo, and Singleton's ...
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... Identity. London: Routledge. Castells, Manuel. 1996. The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell. Fuchs, Stephen. 2001. Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press ...
... Identity. London: Routledge. Castells, Manuel. 1996. The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell. Fuchs, Stephen. 2001. Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press ...
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... identity and biography which are typically constructed in relation to particular persons as much as to grand narratives of struggle and progress, hope and despair. Emphasising this point is likely to produce one of two reactions. The ...
... identity and biography which are typically constructed in relation to particular persons as much as to grand narratives of struggle and progress, hope and despair. Emphasising this point is likely to produce one of two reactions. The ...
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... identities that were at once domestic and public, feminine and authoritative, religious and secular might be built and sustained (Holton, S. 2005a, 2005b). Equally, the evidence in this collection demonstrates how members of the ...
... identities that were at once domestic and public, feminine and authoritative, religious and secular might be built and sustained (Holton, S. 2005a, 2005b). Equally, the evidence in this collection demonstrates how members of the ...
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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