Performing Europe: Identity Formation for a "New" Europe

Reinelt, Janelle

doi:10.1353/tj.2001.0084

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“…This metaphor summarises all fragmented stories of exile and displacement. Amid this phantasmagoric and panoramic image, the naked body indicates unity among people or as expressed by Reinelt (2001) "a family of man" (p. 376). McBurney, actually, spent like a quarter of the play stark naked.…”

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The Butterfly Effect Hits Complicité: A Chaotic Reading of Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number

Yas

Termizi

Talif

et al. 2017

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The middle ground chaos theory secures among other gigantic scientific theories to describe the world has brought it to the fore lately. It neither declines the Newtonian clockwork model completely nor promotes the quantum indeterministic model entirely. It preaches that the world is both ordered and disordered, and man is both bound and free. Unlike relativity and quantum physics, it is neither busy with massive objects nor preoccupied with tiny ones, the atoms. It simply works in between, our world. Thus, it spreads and is widely utilised in a variety of disciplines, including literary and cultural domains. Conversely, Theatre de Complicité promotes nonlinearity and fragmentation for structure, and physicality and visual imagery for performance. It does not prefer pre-written texts rather favours devising its own through a lengthy process of improvising and rehearsing. It believes that the world is no longer a world of a single story. It cannot be encompassed within one philosophy or viewpoint. Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number suggest human body within the context of origin as a collective identity, and math within the context of infinity as a path for eternity. Hence, chaos theory is deemed to be the appropriate choice for analysis as it can provide an avenue of escape from the soul-crushing mechanical view of the world dominated most critical approaches for decades and can also furnish an alternative language and scope for literary interpretation.

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confidence: 99%

The Butterfly Effect Hits Complicité: A Chaotic Reading of Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number

Yas

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Talif

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“…Thus contestations of the identity of the`we', which are forcefully articulated in music, theatrical performances, or dance, could be seen as crucial for questioning what it means to be European and how we think about the borders of Europe. Reinelt (2001) has demonstrated, for example, how a number of contemporary theatrical performances, which provide explicit evocations of the New Europe, can be seen as interventions into the democratic struggles, and problems of identity and social justice, at the site of European indeterminancy. This is a line of research that deserves further attention in the literature on the EU and European identity.…”

Section: The Moros Y Cristianos Mock Battles ö Bridging Differences Bmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing Europe and the Global: Conceptualizing the Border in Cultural Encounters

Rovisco

2010

Environ Plan D

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In this paper I explore the inadequacy of the representation of the border, which is underpinned by Manichean distinctions of friend and foe, superior and inferior, inside and outside, to analyze the cultural encounter between Europeans and their others. I argue that a great deal of scholarship interest in this cultural encounter is trapped into a border imaginary that loses sight of those cultural phenomena, such as hybridity, transnational identities, and cosmopolitan affiliations, which challenge established political and cultural borders and foster ‘from below’ new imaginations of the European space. By analyzing a complex set of cultural productions—the creative combination of European modes of thought, texts, and styles in the visual and performative arts, with indigenous local artistic styles and mindsets—I show that, as seen as early as the 16th-century, the rise of a global imagination is the result of complex relations of connectivity between Europe and other parts of the world. I propose a new border imaginary, which is underpinned by a cosmopolitan grammar of difference, to account better for the changing nature of the European space within the dynamics of globalization.

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“…The paper is positioned from a constructivist point of view that recognizes the capacity for identity to be subjective and self-produced (Gellner 1987;Geertz 1994;Anderson 2006). Indeed, the notion of European identity remains elusive and contested even within the official political geography of contemporary Europe (Delanty 1995;Reinelt 2001;Risse 2001). Instead, this paper examines the specific capacity of architecture to reframe history in a manner that is strategic for a nation's contemporary geopolitics.…”

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The role of architecture in the Republic of Georgia's European aspirations

Harris-Brandts

2018

Natl. pap.

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Alignment with Europe has been a popular foreign policy objective among post-socialist nations. In the Republic of Georgia, discourse surrounding the country's Euro-Atlantic orientation surged in the decade after the 2003 Rose Revolution. While such discourse has been examined in the context of political reforms and national security goals, this article foregrounds how it was incorporated into alterations of the built environment. Focusing on the urban transformations of the city of Batumi after the rise to power of the United National Movement government, it demonstrates how architecture served as a tool for selectively rewriting Georgia's contemporary European identity. This article concentrates on two parallel initiatives to transform Batumi into a contemporary European city: the reconstruction of portions of the Old City and the new development along the seaside boulevard. Using evidence collected through qualitative methods, it further highlights the contradictions that emerged during this process of redevelopment and rebranding, as the state balanced initiatives for new development with other post-revolutionary state-building objectives, such as political reform and tourism-market production. Accordingly, it unpacks the various national and international politico-economic forces at play in the process of developing Batumi into the image of a contemporary European city.

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Performing Europe: Identity Formation for a "New" Europe

Cited by 27 publications

References 9 publications

The Butterfly Effect Hits Complicité: A Chaotic Reading of Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number

The Butterfly Effect Hits Complicité: A Chaotic Reading of Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number

Reframing Europe and the Global: Conceptualizing the Border in Cultural Encounters

The role of architecture in the Republic of Georgia's European aspirations

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