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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... Holton suggests, that 'empirically networks are also assemblages of people, institutions, social practices, interactions and bodies of knowledge oriented to “problems”' (Holton 2005, 212). Thus we return to performativity – centring on ...
... Holton suggests, that 'empirically networks are also assemblages of people, institutions, social practices, interactions and bodies of knowledge oriented to “problems”' (Holton 2005, 212). Thus we return to performativity – centring on ...
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... (Holton forthcoming). If networks are to become more than metaphors for inter-connection, we need systematic evidence of what and who is connected, for what purpose and with what effect. The chapters in this collection – all of which ...
... (Holton forthcoming). If networks are to become more than metaphors for inter-connection, we need systematic evidence of what and who is connected, for what purpose and with what effect. The chapters in this collection – all of which ...
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... Holton and Sandra Holton also take a historically-based approach, using the example of a particular family network of Quaker women involved in suffrage and abolition work, to argue (as does Finlay) for the relevance of interpersonal ...
... Holton and Sandra Holton also take a historically-based approach, using the example of a particular family network of Quaker women involved in suffrage and abolition work, to argue (as does Finlay) for the relevance of interpersonal ...
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... Holton for his generous foreword. Thanks are extended to the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, for its ongoing financial support and encouragement for the Global Network project, as well as to IIIS ...
... Holton for his generous foreword. Thanks are extended to the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, for its ongoing financial support and encouragement for the Global Network project, as well as to IIIS ...
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... HOLTON AND ROBERT J. HOLTON Introduction In the broadest sense the term global networks encompasses both electronic networks for the transmission of information and interpersonal networks involving some kind of social interaction ...
... HOLTON AND ROBERT J. HOLTON Introduction In the broadest sense the term global networks encompasses both electronic networks for the transmission of information and interpersonal networks involving some kind of social interaction ...
Contents
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CHAPTER TWO | 25 |
CHAPTER THREE | 38 |
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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