Cultural struggles : performance, ethnography, praxis / Dwight Conquergood ; edited and with a critical introduction by E. Patrick Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conquergood, Lorne Dwight, 1949-2004.

Contributor:

Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Performing arts.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The late Dwight Conquergood's research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised. Conquergood's research laid the groundwork for others to engage issues of ethics in ethnographic research, performance as a meaningful paradigm for ethnography, and case studies that demonstrated the dissolution of theory/practice binaries. Cultural Struggles is the first gathering of Conquergood's work in a single volume, tracing the evolution of one scholar's thinking across a career of scholarship, teaching, and activism, and also the first collection of its kind to bring together theory, method, and complete case studies. The collection begins with an illuminating introduction by E. Patrick Johnson and ends with commentary by other scholars (Micaela di Leonardo, Judith Hamera, Shannon Jackson, D. Soyini Madison, Lisa Merrill, Della Pollock, and Joseph Roach), engaging aspects of Conquergood's work and providing insight into how that work has withstood the test of time, as scholars still draw on his research to inform their current interests and methods"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction: "Opening and Interpreting Lives" - E. Patrick Johnson""; ""I. Performance""; ""Performing Cultures: Ethnography, Epistemology, and Ethics""; ""Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion""; ""Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research""; ""Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics""; ""II. Ethnography""; ""Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance""; ""Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics""

""Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech""""III. Praxis""; ""Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture""; ""Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accommodations in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement""; ""Homeboys and Hoods: Gang Communication and Cultural Space""; ""Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty""; ""IV. Critical Responses""; ""Micaela di Leonardo - Dwight Conquergood and Performative Political Economy""; ""Judith Hamera - Response-ability, Vulnerability, and Other(s') Bodies""

""Shannon Jackson - Caravans Continued: In Memory of Dwight Conquergood""""D. Soyini Madison - "Is Dwight, White?!" or Black Transgressions and the Preeminent Performance of Whiteness""; ""Lisa Merrill - "Soundscapes of Power": Attending to Orality, Communicating Class, and Hearing the Humor in Dwight Conquergood's "Voice"""; ""Della Pollock - Performance into Policy""; ""Joseph Roach - Eloquence and Vocation: Dwight's Calling""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472029297

0472029290