Cultural Struggles Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

Name: Cultural Struggles Performance, Ethnography, Praxis
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ISBN: 9780472051953

ISBN-10: 0472051954

ISBN-13: 9780472051953

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dwight Conquergood, E. Patrick Johnson

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The late Dwight Conquergood’s research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised. Conquergood’s research laid the groundwork for others to engage issues of ethics in ethnographic research, performance as a meaningful paradigm for ethnography, and case studies that demonstrated the dissolution of theory/practice binaries.Cultural Strugglesis the first gathering of Conquergood’s work in a single volume, tracing the evolution of one scholar’s thinking across a career of scholarship, teaching, and activism, and also the first collection of its kind…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 5/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction: "Opening and Interpreting Lives"




Performance


Performing Cultures: Ethnography, Epistemology, and Ethics


Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion


Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research


Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics



Ethnography


Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance


Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics


Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech



Praxis


Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture


Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accommodations in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement


Homeboys and Hoods: Gang Communication and Cultural Space


Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty



Critical Responses


Dwight Conquergood and Performative Political Economy



Response-ability, Vulnerability, and Other(s') Bodies



Caravans Continued: In Memory of Dwight Conquergood



"Is Dwight, White?!" or Black Transgressions and the Preeminent Performance of Whiteness



"Soundscapes of Power": Attending to Orality, Communicating Class, and Hearing the Humor in Dwight Conquergoodï¿½s "Voice"



Performance into Policy



Eloquence and Vocation: Dwight's Calling



Contributors


Index