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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"Performativity"”.
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A Dramatist's Intent : Performativity, Relationality & Being
Within the limitations of this document, written as supplement to the three portfolio texts developed in New York between 2007 and 2013 (Desire Lines, Troyanne and A / The Biography of a Thing), I have striven to achieve three things. Firstly, to contextualise the self (I) as dramatist in relation …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
This dissertation draws upon performance theory and new historicism to read Victorian literature and culture. By fusing the gender consciousness and social constructionist agenda of the former with the rigorous dedication to historical specificity of the latter, I am able both to ground potentially …
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Trauma, Performativity, and Subjectivity in Art Practice
This is a practice based PhD of predominantly video works/installations which seek to examine, alongside the accompanying reflective writing on these works, a particular dynamic set up between the artwork and the spectator which allows a rethinking of the model of the subject's relation to the …
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Homeplace of Hands: Fractal Performativity of Vulnerable Resistance
Homeplace of Hands: Fractal Performativity of Vulnerable Resistance is a feminist autoethnography of possibility that puts on display two new concepts I’ve named fractal performativity and vulnerable resistance. Fractal performativity as a way of seeing is an integrative performance methodology …
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AMD&ART: performativity and participation in ecological remediation
… is the emergent importance of the concept of performativity—“that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains” (Butler, Bodies 2)—in the deconstruction of the binary division of “nature” and “culture.” I offer AMD&ART as an example of a site wherein …
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The performativity of multicultural discourses: youth, conflict and contradictions
… (1990), the thesis looks at different levels of performativity of multicultural discourses that reiterate what I call the 'culture'/ 'race' complex, or the assumption that cultural/racial differences are root causes of conflict in South Africa today. The 'culture'/ 'race' complex overlooks how …
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Keep Austin Queer: Performativity of Queer Space in Austin, Texas
… Expanding on Judith Butler’s theory of “gender performativity,” the participants’ narratives highlight that notion queer space can be performed in such a way that allows queer space to be created anywhere and in abstract ways by anyone who is queer.
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(Un)disciplined Performativity: Anonymity, Identity, and Governmentality on Yik Yak
… how social actors engage in (un)disciplined performativity that allow users to share user-generated content as identity performance separated from their overall reputation and (2) explore how (un)disciplined users are regulated through various forms of vernacular and institutional …
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Members Only: Place and Performativity in the City of London
Through its focus on the City of London as a particular work sector and setting, the thesis emphasizes the symbolic and material significance of place to understanding organizational life. The analysis, drawing primarily on Lefebvre’s theorisation of space as socially produced and on his work on …
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Performance, Photography, Performativity: What performance 'does' in the still image
… Auslander’s supposition and situates the term performativity within an established academic discourse as a social, political or cultural ‘doing’ and questions what, apart from performing, performance ‘does’ in its transcription to a photographic image. I propose a ‘doing’ occurs because the …
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Interartistic Tendencies and Performativity in the Works of Three Women Photographers
… manners. Furthermore, in case of Cindy Sherman performativity is extended to gender and identity formation. In connection with and as a completion of Cindy Sherman’s performative photographs I would also like to touch upon Heather Agyepong, a female photographer’s work from the 21st century by …
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Creative differences : the performativity of gender in the digital media sector
… a starting point to develop an analysis of the performativity of gender in the digital media sector in the North West of England, during the period 2001–2007. Previous feminist research has addressed this paradox by arguing that gender inequalities in the creative and digital industries are …
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Rememoration, ‘sticky associations,’ and social media performativity in the pegida movement
<p>In this thesis, I investigate the process of rememoration and Sara Ahmed’s notion of ‘sticky associations’ on Lutz Bachmann’s Instagram—founder of the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident (Pegida)—from October 2015 to March 2021. I argue that Instagram becomes a stage in …
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Tackling performativity in discrete-time dynamical systems: An iterative refinement approach
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Can Arabs Represent America? The Performativity of U.S-Arab Mediated Public Diplomacy
… into this ideal type is the conceptualization of performativity of both the sender and frontline communicator in terms of their credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of the receivers. All conditions of Cold War communication by the US demonstrate a perfect correspondence with those of the ideal …
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