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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... role in social change. Global network theories are not in themselves a wholly new phenomenon. Migration studies have long discussed chain migrations which describe similar phenomena (see De Tona and Lentin's chapter in this volume); 2 ...
... role in social change. Global network theories are not in themselves a wholly new phenomenon. Migration studies have long discussed chain migrations which describe similar phenomena (see De Tona and Lentin's chapter in this volume); 2 ...
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... role of particular 'charismatic' women in creating social change, rather than focusing on social structures, organisations, groups and subcultures (Sarah 1982; Spender 1982; Purvis 2002). Many of the memoirs and early histories produced ...
... role of particular 'charismatic' women in creating social change, rather than focusing on social structures, organisations, groups and subcultures (Sarah 1982; Spender 1982; Purvis 2002). Many of the memoirs and early histories produced ...
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... role in women's organisations in the north, and was sister to Henrietta Muller, editor of the women's rights journal, The Women's Penny Paper and its successor The Women's Herald. Priscilla Bright McLaren's step-daughter, Agnes, was ...
... role in women's organisations in the north, and was sister to Henrietta Muller, editor of the women's rights journal, The Women's Penny Paper and its successor The Women's Herald. Priscilla Bright McLaren's step-daughter, Agnes, was ...
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... role of individuals as figureheads around which 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 ...
... role of individuals as figureheads around which 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 ...
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... role, and more especially of the mobilisation of their networks, must depend largely on their private correspondence with Josephine Butler, and with other members of the family and friendship circles. In time this movement prompted the ...
... role, and more especially of the mobilisation of their networks, must depend largely on their private correspondence with Josephine Butler, and with other members of the family and friendship circles. In time this movement prompted 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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