Fashioning Political Identities: Cultural Studies and the Historical Construction of Political Subjects

Enstad, Nan

doi:10.1353/aq.1998.0043

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“…First, it maintains that``radical social change begins with the actions and gestures of everyday life'' (Hyman, 1997, page 81). Such an observation is in keeping with the burgeoning literature on everyday forms of resistance, which is sometimes the only avenue available to subordinated populations (de Certeau, 1984;Enstad, 1998;Mullings, 1999;Scott, 1990). Second, it situates performance as both critical and imaginative praxis.…”

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The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California

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Pulido

2002

Environ Plan D

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In this paper we offer an alternative reading of the role of performativity and everyday forms of resistance in current geographic literature. We make a case for thinking about performativity as a form of embodied dialectical praxis via a discussion of the ways in which performativity has been recently understood in geography. Turning to the tradition of Marxist revolutionary theater, we argue for the continued importance of thinking about the power of performativity as a socially transformative, imaginative, and collective political engagement that works simultaneously as a space of social critique and as a space for creating social change. We illustrate our point by examining two different performative strategies employed by food service workers at the University of Southern California in their struggle for a fair work contract and justice on the job.

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confidence: 69%