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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Maladamatjuate and the theatre of difference : staging the female body in South Africa

open access: yes, 2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).In this paper, I investigate contemporary alternative staging strategies that critically and creatively explore representations of women in South African theatre.
Marneweck, Aja
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Creation processes in contemporary shadow theatre

open access: yesMóin-Móin, 2019
Is there a particular form of stage writing and direction for contemporary shadow theatre? What are the processes involved in creation? What is the director’s role in designing and directing in shadow production?
Fabrizio Montecchi
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Development, belonging and change : a study of a community theatre-for-development initiative in KwaZulu-Natal

open access: yes, 2008
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86).This dissertation seeks to address issues related to community change within the field of Theatre-for development.
Stockil, Emily
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
wiley   +1 more source

Theatre in Exile: Defining the Field as Performing Odyssey

open access: yesCritical Stages, 2011
Exile as pain. Exile as difference. Exile as performative adventure. In the following article, excerpted from her upcoming book, Performing Exile — Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Russian-born and now Canadian-based ...
Yana Meerzon
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Functions and Techniques of Critique in Contemporary Estonian Theatre

open access: yes, 2018
This article examines the techniques of scenic criticism in contemporary Estonian theatre. The examples vary in scale and style from the huge political show Unified Estonia by Theatre NO99 (2010) with 7500 participants, which investigated the crisis of ...
Linder, Eva-Liisa
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Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source

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