The Performative State

Author : Iza Yue Ding
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501760389

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The Performative State by Iza Yue Ding Pdf

What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates in vivid detail how China's environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. They assuage public outrage by appearing responsive, benevolent, and humble. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving "performance legitimacy" by delivering material improvements, the state can shape public opinion through the theatrical performance of goodwill and sincere effort. The Performative State also explains when performative governance fails at impressing its audience and when governance becomes less performative and more substantive. Ding focuses on Chinese evidence but her theory travels: comparisons with Vietnam and the United States show that all states, democratic and authoritarian alike, engage in performative governance.

Author : Michael R. Glass,Reuben Rose-Redwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136208096

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Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space by Michael R. Glass,Reuben Rose-Redwood Pdf

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices of everyday life. However, comparatively little scholarship has explored the full implications that arise from the confluence of these two streams of social and political thought. This is the first book-length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity. It offers a timely intervention within the field of critical human geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and the spatiality of performative politics. Through a series of geographical case studies, the contributors to this volume consider the ways in which a performative conception of the "political" might reshape our understanding of sovereignty, political subjectification, and the production of social space. Marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of Judith Butler’s classic, Bodies That Matter (1993), this edited volume brings together a range of contemporary geographical works that draw exciting new connections between performativity, space, and politics.

Author : Jill Blackmore,Judyth Sachs
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791470326

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Performing and Reforming Leaders by Jill Blackmore,Judyth Sachs Pdf

Explores the issues inherent in critical and postmodern feminism in educational leadership.

Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009032445

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Paper, Performance, and the State by Farhat Hasan Pdf

This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communication, and led to the development of a performative (and somatic) public sphere in South Asia. The work highlights the significance of legal spaces, along with the markets and coffeehouses, in shaping the emergent public sphere. While defending the case for legal pluralism, it argues that the Mughal state endured and enhanced the diversity in the legal order. Focusing on the socially embedded attributes of the state, it looks at how the state's relations with the local powers impinged on, and reproduced community identities, identity conflicts, legal pluralism, property relations, and different forms of social communication.

Author : Gerry Brenner
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791459446

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Performative Criticism by Gerry Brenner Pdf

Genre-bending experiments that appropriate, impersonate, and speak through already-created literary characters in order to offer fresh interpretations of well-known literary works.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674495562

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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly by Judith Butler Pdf

Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity—destruction of the conditions of livability—is a galvanizing force and theme in today’s highly visible protests.

Author : Elzbieta Matynia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317254348

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Performative Democracy by Elzbieta Matynia Pdf

fresh appreciation of the events of 1989 as we approach their 20th anniversary in 2009 Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere within Communist Poland, the book seeks to identify the conditions for performativity-performing politics--in public life. It examines a broad spectrum of cultural, social, and political initiatives that facilitated the non-violent transformation of an autocratic environment into a democratic one. Examples of performativity range from experimental student theater, through the engaged political thinking of dissident Adam Michnik, the alternative culture, and the Solidarity movement, to the drama of the Round Table Talks (and their striking parallels in South Africa), and finally, the post-1989 efforts of feminist groups and women artists to defend the recently won right of free public discourse. The book argues that performative democracy, with its improvisational mode and imaginative solutions, deserves a legitimate place in our broader reflections on democracy. Matynia describes how two apparent miracles of recent history-that communism in Poland was brought down without violence and that apartheid in South Africa was ended without a bloodbath-were the results of hard work and a new approach to change that she calls "performative democracy." Matynia reveals amazing parallels between the drama of Poland's Round Table Talks in 1989 and the Truth Commissions in South Africa in 1994. Matynia describes how experimental student theater groups, though subsidized by a totalitarian regime afraid of any authentic public life, created little pockets of public space for free and meaningful expression that were augmented by uncensored underground publishing and further expanded by the Solidarity movement into a democratic society within the totalitarian state. Matynia describes in a personal way how in the 1970s student theater groups planted the seeds of an authentic public sphere, how underground publishers nurtured freedom of expression and social criticism, and how, after democratic elections, women artists in the 1990s fought to sustain the newly won right to free public discourse. Matynia traces in vivid human terms the democratic aspirations and practices that led to democratic change in Poland but went largely unnoticed by western media and policymakers.

Author : Jocelyn Spence
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319283951

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Performative Experience Design by Jocelyn Spence Pdf

This book presents a novel framework for understanding and designing performative experiences with digital technologies. It introduces readers to performance theory and practice in the context of HCI and gives a practical and holistic approach for understanding complex interactions with digital technologies at the far end of third-wave HCI. The author presents a step-by-step explanation of the Performative Experience Design methodology, along with a detailed case study of the design process as it was applied to co-located digital photo sharing. Finally, the text offers guidelines for design and a vision of how PED can contribute to an ethical, critical, exploratory, and humane understanding of the ways that we engage meaningfully with digital technology. Researchers, students and practitioners working in this important and evolving field will find this state-of-the-art book a valuable addition to their reading.

Author : Peter Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009121361

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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America by Peter Reed Pdf

American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder. French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars, blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways. Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti shaped generations of performances, transforming America's understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that still reverberate today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Zachar Alexander Laskewicz
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 13528165

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Performance Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Publisher : Black Performance and Cultural
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814252079

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Theatrical Jazz by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Pdf

The first full-length study of the theatrical jazz aesthetic, that draws on the jazz principles of ensemble--the break, the bridge, and the blue note.

Author : Arabella Lyon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271069944

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Deliberative Acts by Arabella Lyon Pdf

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather than conceiving deliberation within the familiar frameworks of persuasion, identification, or procedural democracy, it privileges speech acts and bodily enactments that constitute deliberation itself, reorienting deliberative theory toward the initiating moment of recognition, a moment in which interlocutors are positioned in relationship to each other and so may begin to construct a new lifeworld. By approaching human rights not as norms or laws, but as deliberative acts, Lyon conceives rights as relationships among people and as ongoing political and historical projects developing communal norms through global and cross-cultural interactions.

Author : Fen Osler Hampson,Judith Reppy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080148362X

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Earthly Goods by Fen Osler Hampson,Judith Reppy Pdf

Ten essays from a series of workshops in 1992 and 1993 and a conference, probably at Cornell University in 1993, tackle difficult issues raised in making environmental policy when social justice concerns are taken seriously. They cover alternative frameworks for evaluating social justice, the role of states and substate actors in the international politics of the environment, the role of science in framing the debate on global environmental change and its use by various actors, and international negotiations. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ruby Dagher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030672546

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Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-conflict States by Ruby Dagher Pdf

This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders’ legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries. The author uses the Performance Legitimacy Theory of Transition framework to demonstrate the potential legitimacy paths that post-conflict countries can embark on and proposes a new approach for building state legitimacy in post-conflict countries. The author also introduces new indicators to measure performance legitimacy that also reflect its non-exclusive nature. Essential reading for students and researchers of Peace and Conflict Studies and especially of post-conflict development, peacebuilding, statebuilding, intervention, and democracy promotion. Also accessible to policy makers.

Author : Julia C. Strauss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108476867

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State Formation in China and Taiwan by Julia C. Strauss Pdf

An ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and 'conservative' Taiwan in the early 1950s.