Performing Representation

Performing Representation
Title Performing Representation PDF eBook
Author Shirin M. Rai
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 322
Release 2018-10-09
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0199093857

Download Performing Representation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Native American Performance and Representation

Native American Performance and Representation
Title Native American Performance and Representation PDF eBook
Author S. E. Wilmer
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 298
Release 2011-11-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816502749

Download Native American Performance and Representation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Performing Ethnomusicology

Performing Ethnomusicology
Title Performing Ethnomusicology PDF eBook
Author Ted Solis
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 340
Release 2004-08-13
Genre Art
ISBN 9780520238312

Download Performing Ethnomusicology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

'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.

Democracy, Accountability, and Representation

Democracy, Accountability, and Representation
Title Democracy, Accountability, and Representation PDF eBook
Author Adam Przeworski
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 368
Release 1999-09-13
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780521646161

Download Democracy, Accountability, and Representation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

6 Party Government and Responsiveness: James A. Stimson

Populism

Populism
Title Populism PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Moffitt
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 107
Release 2020-03-20
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1509534342

Download Populism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who disrupt the status quo and speak in the name of ‘the people’ against ‘the elite’. Yet the term remains something of a puzzle: poorly understood, vaguely defined and, more often than not, used as a term of abuse. In this concise and engaging book, leading expert Benjamin Moffitt cuts through this confusion. Offering the first accessible introduction to populism as a core concept in political theory, he maps the different schools of thought on how to understand populism and explores how populism relates to some of the most important concepts at the heart of political debate today. He asks: what has populism got to do with nationalism and nativism? How does it intersect with socialism? Is it compatible with liberalism? And in the end, is populism a good or bad thing for democracy? This book is essential reading for anyone – from students and scholars to general readers alike – seeking to make sense of one the most important and controversial issues in the contemporary political landscape.

Darkening Mirrors

Darkening Mirrors
Title Darkening Mirrors PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 350
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 082234923X

Download Darkening Mirrors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Motion and Representation

Motion and Representation
Title Motion and Representation PDF eBook
Author Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 285
Release 2015-05-08
Genre Art
ISBN 0262028883

Download Motion and Representation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

An examination of the ways human movement can be represented as a formal language and how this language can be mediated technologically. In Motion and Representation, Nicolás Salazar Sutil considers the representation of human motion through languages of movement and technological mediation. He argues that technology transforms the representation of movement and that representation in turn transforms the way we move and what we understand to be movement. Humans communicate through movement, physically and mentally. To record and capture integrated movement (both bodily and mental), by means of formal language and technological media, produces a material record and cultural expression of our evolving kinetic minds and identities. Salazar Sutil considers three forms of movement inscription: a written record (notation), a visual record (animation), and a computational record (motion capture). He focuses on what he calls kinetic formalism—formalized movement in such pursuits as dance, sports, live animation, and kinetic art, as well as abstract definitions of movement in mathematics and computer science. He explores the representation of kinetic space and spatiotemporality; the representation of mental plans of movement; movement notation, including stave notation (Labanotation) and such contemporary forms of notation as Choreographic Language Agent; and the impact of digital technology on contemporary representations of movement—in particular motion capture technology and Internet transfer protocols. Motion and Representation offers a unique cultural theory of movement and of the ever-changing ways of representing movement.