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Performativity & Belonging
Edited by:
- Vikki Bell - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
August 1999 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance and fracture are produced and reproduced. Questions of 'difference' are tackled from a perspective that attends to the complexities of history and politics.
Drawing on sociology, philosophy and anthropology, this collection brings together leading commentators, including Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a range of new scholars. It examines questions of visuality, political affiliation, ethics, mimesis, spatiality, passing, and diversity in modes of embodied difference. The volume advances conceptual and theoretical issues through testing various propositions around specific examples or questions. What emerges is a rich engagement with the complexity of contemporary forms of belonging.
Vikki Bell
Performativity and Belonging
Judith Butler
Revisiting Bodies and Pleasures
Vikki Bell
Historical Memory, Global Movements and Violence
Anne-Marie Fortier
Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)
Chetan Bhatt
Ethnic Absolutism and the Authoritarian Spirit
Sara Ahmed
'She'll Wake Up One of These Days and Find She's Turned Into a Nigger'
Mariam Fraser
Classing Queer
Vikki Bell
Mimesis as Cultural Survival
Vikki Bell
On Speech, Race and Melancholia
Lois McNay
Subject, Psyche and Agency
Moya Lloyd
Performativity, Parody, Politics
Elspeth Probyn
Beyond Food/Sex
Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord
Playing it Again
