Performing Global Networks - Hardcover

Karen Fricker; Ronit Lentin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847182046 ISBN 13: 9781847182043

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Networks are everywhere: from migrant organisations to information technology, from business to social movements, from international governance to global non-governmental organisations, from theatrical collectives to fan clubs, from memory sites to narrative circles. The portmanteau terms networks, and more specifically, global networks, seem to have become the mots du jour in contemporary cultural and social studies. But what cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish: what is the work of these networks? This path-breaking collection follows Graeme Thompson s rallying cry for a clearer analytical approach to the ways in which networks are enacted, assembled, conducted, and performed. In its thirteen chapters, scholars from a variety of fields sociology, theatre and performance studies, peace studies, history, and musicology as well as social and cultural activists, explore the multiple meanings of global networks and performance.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard A. Hill, Ph.D. is Professor of Writing and Literature at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. He has written on Lewis for numerous publications and conferences and has taught Lewis in college courses, small group seminars, and adult Sunday school. Since 1997 he has been program chair and conference book editor for the international C.S. Lewis and Friends Colloquium. Lyle H. Smith, Ph.D. is Professor of English Literature at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He has contributed to The C. S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia, The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, and Word and Story in C.S. Lewis. He has taught courses, addressed gatherings, and led discussion groups on Lewis for over twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847182046
• ISBN 13: 9781847182043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Karen Fricker, Ronit Lentin