“The hunger strike and the fast are reflective experiences, performances of death in which we see ourselves.” ( Grant 2019: 1 ) “We have now learned our power to starve ourselves out of prison, and this power we shall use.” (Christobel
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Performances of Death
Hunger Strikes, Discipline, and Democracy
Amanda Machin
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 31–43 (13 total)
Literary Readings as Performance
On the Career of Contemporary Writers in the New Ireland
Helena Wulff
Drawing on an anthropological study of the social organisation of the world of Irish writers, this article investigates the literary reading as performance which has become central for the career and promotion of contemporary writers. How is the reading - live as well as recorded - constituted, and how is it experienced from the writer's point of view? The data are derived from participant observation and interviews at literary festivals and conferences, writers' retreats, book launches and more informal situations with writers, as well as from fiction and essays by the writers. For this article, I asked some of the writers to write short texts on the reading. It turned out that the frames of the reading as performance reach beyond the reading event, and also that a reading includes elements of risk, such as not attracting a big enough audience or performing badly. Finally, the article considers the changing role of the ethnographer.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 98–113 (15 total)
Corporeal performance in contemporary ethnonationalist movements
The changing body politic of Basque and Catalan secessionism
Mariann Vaczi and Cameron J Watson
Over the past ten years, the Catalan independence movement has intensified and gained considerable social support. State–region relations hit bottom in late 2019, when demonstrations and night street fights occurred as a result of the Constitutional Court decision to imprison Catalan pro‐independence politicians. In the Basque Country, a reverse process may be observed: after decades of its violent ‘Troubles’, the Basque Country now enjoys peace and channels its pro‐independence politics in formal directions. Beyond discursive messages, the Basque and Catalan movements have deployed body techniques to call attention to their political objectives. The historically changing moods and dispositions of the two movements may be traced through the corporeal performance techniques they have chosen as their symbols and allegories. The hand, palm, fist, skin, touch and verticality become ideological configurations that reproduce political imaginaries that express the dispositions, risks and desires of nationalist constructions.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 602–618 (16 total)
Queer Migration and the Performance of Crime and Illegality
Matthew Abbey
anonymous artist in Berlin (Anonymous Ka 2019), I argue that the performance of crime and illegality disrupts the demand for queer migrants to perform the role of the “good,” law-abiding migrant who desires inclusion into the nation. On the one hand
Performances of Closeness and the Staging of Resistance with Mainstream Music
Analyzing the Symbolism of Pandemic Skeptical Protests
Anna Schwenck
restrictions not simply as a temporary suspension of physical proximity but as an assault on social connections within what they define as the Volk (the people) and as an indicator that a new form of totalitarianism is nigh. I further focus on “performances
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–60 (26 total)
Common Purpose
Performance and Curation as Allied Socially Engaged Practices
Brogan Bunt
If performance and curation have now entered into new, more intimate relation, it is because both fields, as well as the wider social, critical, and artistic context have shifted. It is not as though the issues associated with their traditional
Coming to Our Senses
From the Birth of the Curator Function to Curating Live Arts
Ed McKeon
practices within the museum's “expanded field.” That is, the invention of Performance Art and Sound Art among others as visual practices distinct from the performing arts and their traditions was a curatorial construct. In brief, the role consolidated the
Intimidation, reassurance, and invisibility
Israeli security agents in the Old City of Jerusalem
Erella Grassiani and Lior Volinz
understand the nature of this kind of policing. Our second point of departure is to analyze the policing strategies mentioned above as performances, in which visuality plays a significant role (see Cook and Whowell 2011 ; Diphoorn 2016 ). With this approach
Dynamics of Ritual Reflexivity in the Alevi Cem of Istanbul
Jens Kreinath and Refika Sariönder
in both its constitutive parts and overall design, ranging from the modes of performance and participation to the intended audiences. As a response to different audiences in the environs of cities like Istanbul, there have been some collective
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 145–159 (15 total)
Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins
The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century
Maria Stehle
anti-rock and anti-essentialist purpose. The real site of her attack on heteronormativity, however, is her body—as topic of her songs but also as a tool for her performance. 1 In a role-play between naked alien and red-glittery glamour queen, McGowan
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 99–116 (18 total)