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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Karen Fricker, Ronit Lentin. contemporary phenomena. These remain open questions for readers to contemplate as they explore the chapters that follow. We wish to thank all the contributors, with special thanks to Prof Robert Holton for ...
Karen Fricker, Ronit Lentin. contemporary phenomena. These remain open questions for readers to contemplate as they explore the chapters that follow. We wish to thank all the contributors, with special thanks to Prof Robert Holton for ...
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... contemporary rather than historical in focus. It also tends to treat the persons involved in networks as sets of anonymous individuals, whose activities may best be understood solely in terms of their social and cultural location. Such ...
... contemporary rather than historical in focus. It also tends to treat the persons involved in networks as sets of anonymous individuals, whose activities may best be understood solely in terms of their social and cultural location. Such ...
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... contemporary opposition to globalisation is expressed precisely as a defence of local communities and particularities. Such a concern is, however, misleading. There are also to be found microhistories of cross-border life among migrants ...
... contemporary opposition to globalisation is expressed precisely as a defence of local communities and particularities. Such a concern is, however, misleading. There are also to be found microhistories of cross-border life among migrants ...
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... contemporary scholarship (Banks 1981; Levine 1990; Holton, S. 1996, 2005b), and this is especially clear among Unitarian and Quaker figures. The research drawn on here focuses on the particular family circle created by the marriage in ...
... contemporary scholarship (Banks 1981; Levine 1990; Holton, S. 1996, 2005b), and this is especially clear among Unitarian and Quaker figures. The research drawn on here focuses on the particular family circle created by the marriage in ...
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... contemporary present. The slow pace of the creative process that is theatre cannot keep pace with the speed of change of contemporary political events. Agit-prop, happenings and performative interventions found their niche market (in ...
... contemporary present. The slow pace of the creative process that is theatre cannot keep pace with the speed of change of contemporary political events. Agit-prop, happenings and performative interventions found their niche market (in ...
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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