Performativity & Belonging

Performativity & Belonging
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0761965238
ISBN-13 : 9780761965237
Rating : 4/5 (237 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Performativity & Belonging by : Vikki Bell

Download or read book Performativity & Belonging written by Vikki Bell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance and fracture are produced and reproduced. Questions of 'difference' are tackled from a perspective that attends to the complexities of history and politics. Drawing on sociology, philosophy and anthropology, this collection brings together leading commentators, including Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a range of new scholars. It examines questions of visuality, political affiliation, ethics, mimesis, spatiality, passing, and diversity in modes of embodied difference. The volume advances conceptual and theoretical issues through testing va


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