Performative Acts and Gender Constitution

Butler, Judith

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“…These fringes are often, for Butler, found in parody and play (Butler, 1990: 273; Lloyd, 1999: 198). Here, deviance from the norm is seen as a ‘mere act’.…”

Section: Closing Traps: Deep Attachments and Reflexive Politicsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Performativity is neither scripted nor a conscious prescription; to run with Butler’s (1990: 277) simile, it sets the stage but does not provide detailed instructions. This constraining/forming/shaping force thus enables certain performances of selfhood and creates certain feelings of identity belonging (Bell, 1999: 3).…”

Section: Closing Traps: Deep Attachments and Reflexive Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Closing traps: Emotional attachment, intervention and juxtaposition in cosplay and International Relations

Birkedal

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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This article explores the everyday emotional attachments to martial discourses through the embodiment of popular culture representations of war(rior) bodies in cosplay. In cosplay – the (re)creation and wearing of costumes of characters from popular culture – the cosplayer is able to express and experience behaviours and emotions normally unavailable to them. This enables a radical, empathetic form of identity exploration, wherein the cosplayer is able to express and develop an understanding of their own and others’ experiences. Building on autoethnographic fieldwork in cosplay as Black Widow, I posit three links between cosplay and the study of emotions in International Relations (IR): the first, going through the everyday constitutive character of popular culture; the second, linking the embodiment of representations of war(rior) characters in cosplay with the feminist IR challenge to study the human experience of war; and the third, arguing that the study of something so seemingly random can engender exciting insights, like a collage. I argue that cosplay can be used to understand our emotional attachments to violent, gendered discourses found in popular culture narratives, but that in the (re)enactment of these upon the body – in their embodiment – there is a space for resistance.

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“…These fringes are often, for Butler, found in parody and play (Butler, 1990: 273; Lloyd, 1999: 198). Here, deviance from the norm is seen as a ‘mere act’.…”

Section: Closing Traps: Deep Attachments and Reflexive Politicsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Closing Traps: Deep Attachments and Reflexive Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Closing traps: Emotional attachment, intervention and juxtaposition in cosplay and International Relations

Birkedal

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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“…Yaghoobi uses poststructuralist feminist ideas, especially Julia Kristeva's (1987) ideas about gendered subjectivity and Judith Butler's (1996) theories of gender and performativity, to critically revisit the poetry of the Persian mystic Fariduddin Attar, wherein she locates a persistent theme of human diversity, inclusiveness, and justice. In relation to Islamic mysticism, it is important to underscore, as Yaghoobi does, that whereas for Foucault sexual transgression is important for its potential to mark a nondiscursive space of liberating profanity in a world devoid of all limits, this is different from the Islamic mystic's breaching of limits.…”

Section: Transgressive Piety: Alternative Relationships Of Individualmentioning

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Piety, Transgression, and the Feminist Debate on Muslim Women: Resituating the Victim-Subject of Honor-Related Violence From a Transnational Lens

Jamal

2021

IJCYFS

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While I strongly endorse anti-imperialist feminist attempts to uphold devout Muslim women’s gendered agency, I am concerned that these arguments fail to disrupt the intransigent association of freedom, particularly individual freedom, with secularism, and communitarian restraint with Islam. It is not surprising, therefore, that victim-subjects of honor-related violence, whether in a secular state such as Canada or an Islamic state like Pakistan, are discursively installed within the universal secular sphere and reevicted from the religious and cultural community. I propose the notion of transgressive piety rather than the dichotomy of secular society versus pious community within which to problematize gendered Muslim subjects. The transgression of ritualistic and institutionalized practices is associated with practices termed Sufism. Muslim feminists may use the idea of transgressive piety to offer faith-based support to those gendered subjects whose transgressive acts, appearance, or practices define them as legitimate targets of family, community, or state-based violence. In so doing, we may also challenge doctrinaire and narrow definitions of the Muslim Ummah, the all-encompassing and transcendent community of Muslims.

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“…Finally, we might think of performance in the sense of editors or writers forging their personal identity. 21 Editors often dramatised their worldliness through their knowledge or their experience as travellers: circulation was performed in the press. Indeed, the globe as sign and symbol plays a prominent role in many newspaper names and logos.…”

Section: Performativitymentioning

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Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

Hunter¹,

James²

2020

Itinerario

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A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature has tended to focus on specific regions, and has often sidestepped the larger question of how to conceptualise the relationship between print media and colonial rule. While some have used the term ‘colonial public sphere’ or ‘colonial publics,’ others have preferred to avoid these terms and instead thought in terms of multiple and overlapping publics. What this literature has shown is that a single analytic model for analysing public spaces of discourse is not usable. In this Introduction to our Special Issue we propose a new framework for studying the publics created through print media in the colonial world. We outline a set of four factors – addressivity, performativity, materiality and periodicity – that can be applied to specific historical case studies. We then explain how the issue as a whole models this methodology as a means to analyse how print media (as one medium within the public sphere) functioned in specific colonial and semi-colonial spaces around the world.

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Performative Acts and Gender Constitution

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Closing traps: Emotional attachment, intervention and juxtaposition in cosplay and International Relations

Closing traps: Emotional attachment, intervention and juxtaposition in cosplay and International Relations

Piety, Transgression, and the Feminist Debate on Muslim Women: Resituating the Victim-Subject of Honor-Related Violence From a Transnational Lens

Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

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