Performing Representation

Author : Shirin M. Rai,Carole Spary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199093854

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Performing Representation by Shirin M. Rai,Carole Spary Pdf

Seven decades after India’s independence women members occupy 1 in 10 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. In analysing women’s limited presence in the Indian Parliament, Performing Representation breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and politics. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. This book offers new insights into the gendered nature of the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life through an examination of electoral data, legislative debates, and life stories of women MPs. The authors avoid both the framing of women MPs either simply as challengers of masculinized institutional politics or only as docile actors in a gendered institution. Making a strong case for taking parliamentary politics seriously in these times of populism, the book raises critical questions about the politics of difference, claim-making, representation, and intersectionality and addresses these as part of global feminist debates on the importance of the women’s representation in political institutions.

Author : Ted Solis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520238311

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Performing Ethnomusicology by Ted Solis Pdf

'Performing Ethnomusicology' is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, & contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. 16 essays discuss the problems of public performance & the pragmatics of pedagogy & learning processes.

Author : Shirin M Rai,Carole Spary
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019948905X

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Performing Representation by Shirin M Rai,Carole Spary Pdf

Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, Performing Representation is the first comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. Offering a new, multi-method analysis of the gendered nature of India's parliament through an examination of electoral data, media reports and life stories of women Members of Parliament it sheds light on the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life. It explores how the gendered axis of power underpins the performance of parliament and its Members as well as the political economy in which they are embedded. The book makes a strong case for taking parliamentary politics seriously in these times of populism, without either a utopian framing of women MPs as challengers of masculinised institutional politics or seeing them simply as docile actors in a gendered institution. Performing Representation raises critical questions about the politics of difference, claim-making, representation and intersectionality. It addresses these questions as part of global feminist debates on the importance of the women's representation in political institutions.

Author : S. E. Wilmer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816502400

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Native American Performance and Representation by S. E. Wilmer Pdf

Native performance is a multifaceted and changing art form as well as a swiftly growing field of research. Native American Performance and Representation provides a wider and more comprehensive study of Native performance, not only its past but also its present and future. Contributors use multiple perspectives to look at the varying nature of Native performance strategies. They consider the combination and balance of the traditional and modern techniques of performers in a multicultural world. This collection presents diverse viewpoints from both scholars and performers in this field, both Natives and non-Natives. Important and well-respected researchers and performers such as Bruce McConachie, Jorge Huerta, and Daystar/Rosalie Jones offer much-needed insight into this quickly expanding field of study. This volume examines Native performance using a variety of lenses, such as feminism, literary and film theory, and postcolonial discourse. Through the many unique voices of the contributors, major themes are explored, such as indigenous self-representations in performance, representations by nonindigenous people, cultural authenticity in performance and representation, and cross-fertilization between cultures. Authors introduce important, though sometimes controversial, issues as they consider the effects of miscegenation on traditional customs, racial discrimination, Native women’s position in a multicultural society, and the relationship between authenticity and hybridity in Native performance. An important addition to the new and growing field of Native performance, Wilmer’s book cuts across disciplines and areas of study in a way no other book in the field does. It will appeal not only to those interested in Native American studies but also to those concerned with women’s and gender studies, literary and film studies, and cultural studies.

Author : M. Reason
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230598560

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Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance by M. Reason Pdf

The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies. Focusing on contemporary performance practice and with emphasis on the transformative impact of video, photography and writing, this book explores the ideological, practical, and representational implications of knowing performance through its documentations.

Author : Shirin Rai,Carole Spary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Women
ISBN : 0199093865

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Performing Representation by Shirin Rai,Carole Spary Pdf

Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, this text presents a comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. Offering a new, multi-method analysis of the gendered nature of India's parliament through an examination of electoral data, media reports and life stories of women Members of Parliament it sheds light on the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life. It explores how the gendered axis of power underpins the performance of parliament and its Members as well as the political economy in which they are embedded.

Author : Adam Przeworski,Susan C. Stokes,Bernard Manin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521646162

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Democracy, Accountability, and Representation by Adam Przeworski,Susan C. Stokes,Bernard Manin Pdf

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Author : Marc Jeannerod
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134753697

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Attention and Performance Xiii by Marc Jeannerod Pdf

Compiled as a result of the Thirteenth Symposium of the Association for Attention and Performance, this collection focuses on the Symposium's theme: Organization of Action. The book is arranged in sections which provide a comprehensive view of the main issues raised during the meeting. Several aspects of the theme were considered, including: the anatomical and physiological constraints on motor preparation and execution . the influence of control (proprioceptive, cutaneous, visual, oculomotor) signals the contribution of kinematics to the understanding of the underlying mechanisms and the role of cognitive constraints such as attention or learning in goal selection This new volume is of particular interest to professionals and researchers in cognitive psychology, physiology, and neuropsychology as well as those studying motor skills.

Author : Susannah Crowder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526127245

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PERFORMING WOMEN by Susannah Crowder Pdf

Author : Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822349235

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Darkening Mirrors by Stephanie Leigh Batiste Pdf

In an important contribution to African American film and performance history, Stephanie Batiste looks back at African American stage and screen productions of the 1930s.

Author : Jen Webb
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446246535

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Understanding Representation by Jen Webb Pdf

"This is an extraordinarily lucid book. I am not sure that there is anyone who can do this sort of thing better than Jen Webb. It is a gift to students; extremely accessible yet complex and sophisticated in its treatment of theories and concepts of representation." - Jim McGuigan, Loughborough University Understanding Representation offers a contemporary, coherent and genuinely interdisciplinary introduction to the concept of representation. Drawing together the full range of ideas, practices, techniques and disciplines associated with the subject, this book locates them in a historical context, presents them in a readable fashion, and shows their relevance to everyday life in an engaging and accessible manner. Readers will be shown how to develop a sophisticated attitude to meaning, and understand the relationship to truth and identity that is brought into focus by communicative practices. With chapters on linguistic and political representation, art and media, and philosophical and cognitive approaches, this book: Guides readers through complex theoretical terrain with a highly readable and refreshing writing style. Explains the techniques and perspectives offered by semiotics, discourse analysis, poetics, politics, narratology, visual culture, cognitive theory, performance theory and theories of embodied subjectivity. Covers the new ideas and practices that have emerged since the work of Barthes, Eco and Foucault - especially communication and meaning-making in the digital environment, and the new paradigms of understanding associated with cognitive theories of identity and language. Teaches readers how to interpret and interrogate the world of signs in which they live. Understanding Representation provides students across the social sciences and humanities with an invaluable introduction to what is meant by ′representation′.

Author : Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640563

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Defiant Indigeneity by Stephanie Nohelani Teves Pdf

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K&257;naka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "hula girl" of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the K&257;naka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning. While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.

Author : Caroline Andrew,Manon Tremblay
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780776604510

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Women and Political Representation in Canada by Caroline Andrew,Manon Tremblay Pdf

This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their absence from the Canadian political scene. Published in English.

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761954325

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Representation by Stuart Hall Pdf

This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized `Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in discourses of consumer culture and advertising; and the gendering of narratives in television soap operas.

Author : Jonathan C. Friedman
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761842675

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Performing Difference by Jonathan C. Friedman Pdf

Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes: race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides. This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the social construction of the 'other' in differing contexts. Its fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing a more nuanced and humane vision of social outcasts, not only in the realm of national imaginations, but in social relations as well.