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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... stage performer who is, by his or her work, taking a 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 ...
... stage performer who is, by his or her work, taking a 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 ...
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... stage. Le Dernier Caravanserail dramatises the contemporary crisis of conflict migration by staging real-life testimony of illegal migrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East attempting to migrate to England; the production's ...
... stage. Le Dernier Caravanserail dramatises the contemporary crisis of conflict migration by staging real-life testimony of illegal migrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East attempting to migrate to England; the production's ...
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... stage. In the past ten years the company has given refuge to Tibetan and African refugees under threat of deportation, acting perhaps as the Church might have done in a former age, providing sanctuary. In the past five years, its ...
... stage. In the past ten years the company has given refuge to Tibetan and African refugees under threat of deportation, acting perhaps as the Church might have done in a former age, providing sanctuary. In the past five years, its ...
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... stages on which action was performed simultaneously. All the scenes featured tales of the French Revolution from the perspective of ordinary citizens, presenting the audience not only with Performing Global Networks 27.
... stages on which action was performed simultaneously. All the scenes featured tales of the French Revolution from the perspective of ordinary citizens, presenting the audience not only with Performing Global Networks 27.
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... stage world was portrayed as largely metonymic, the inability of the actors to communicate in a deafening surrounding soundscape and highly charged physical action made the political point that the origins and destinies of refugees are ...
... stage world was portrayed as largely metonymic, the inability of the actors to communicate in a deafening surrounding soundscape and highly charged physical action made the political point that the origins and destinies of refugees are ...
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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