Performativity & Belonging (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076196522X ISBN 13: 9780761965220

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Vikki Bell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, university of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076196522X
• ISBN 13: 9780761965220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bell Vikki