Playing it Again: Citation, Reiteration or Circularity?

Campbell, Jan; Harbord, Janet

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“…Rejecting the view of such mimicry as a simple identification with and adaptation to the dominant colonial subject and colonial power, Bhabha suggests that the practice of mimicry is far more ambiguous, indeed that it is characterized by ambivalence. Thus while mimicry may signal an identification with the dominant, it may also as Campbell and Harbord note ‘mask the language of the other, raising the spectre that this seeming ‘identification’ may indeed be a parody’ (Campbell and Harbord, 1999:236).…”

Section: Bourdieu Reflexivity and Social Change: Rethinking Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflexivity: Freedom Or Habit of Gender?

Adkins¹

2004

The Sociological Review

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Section: Bourdieu Reflexivity and Social Change: Rethinking Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflexivity: Freedom Or Habit of Gender?

Adkins¹

2004

The Sociological Review

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“…12 In short, what such work underscores is that the logic of ambivalence at play within mimesis demands an understanding of instability not as external to but as internal to the operation of norms themselves. As Campbell and Harbord (1999) have discussed, Homi Bhabha's (1994) account of mimicry and the colonized subject underscores this point well. Rejecting the view of such mimicry as a simple identification with and adaptation to the dominant colonial subject and colonial power, Bhabha suggests that the practice of mimicry is far more ambiguous, indeed that it is characterized by ambivalence.…”

Section: Reflexivity As Habit Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 89%

Reflexivity

Adkins

2003

Theory, Culture & Society

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In this article the increasing significance of Bourdieu’s social theory is mapped in recent sociological accounts of gender in late-modern societies. What is highlighted in particular is the influence of Bourdieu’s social theory, and especially his arguments regarding critical reflexivity and social transformation, on a specific thesis which is common to a number of contemporary feminist accounts of gender transformations in late modernity. Here it is suggested that in late modernity there is a lack of fit between habitus and field in certain public spheres of action via an increasing transposition or movement of the feminine habitus from private to public spheres, which is linked to a heightened critical reflexivity vis-à-vis gender and to detraditionalization. In this article, however, a number of limits regarding this line of argument are highlighted, especially those flowing from the unproblematic coupling of reflexivity with detraditionalization. This exploration in turn leads to a critical discussion of Bourdieu’s ideas regarding social transformation. In particular it is asked why, when thinking about social transformation, does Bourdieu abandon his own principles regarding practice?

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“…As a process, performativity reiteratively and citationally constructs the subject (Holmqvist, 2015: 181). That is, it forms, shapes and enables the performance of identity: in Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord’s (1999: 234) words, ‘as a process, performativity acts us’.…”

Section: Closing Traps: Deep Attachments and Reflexive Politicsmentioning

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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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Playing it Again: Citation, Reiteration or Circularity?

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Reflexivity: Freedom Or Habit of Gender?

Reflexivity: Freedom Or Habit of Gender?

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

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