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Panel 143: Performances as Re-Creation: Social and Political Signifying through Performative Practices

Panel organisers: Geert Castryck and Nadine Sieveking (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany)

Contact: geert.castryck@uni-leipzig.de

This panel addresses methodological and theoretical questions concerning the meanings of performances. On the one hand, we ask how we can account for the significance of performances as modes of political and social engagement. On the other hand, we criticize the tendency of ‘culturalizing’ performative practices, thereby blinding out their political dimensions and ignoring the ways in which they are linked to the dynamics of social transformation. In order to avoid the drawbacks of an essentialized understanding of performance we want to analyse how performative creativity and imagination can underpin political claims or hopes, enhance social senses of belonging and create space for shared experiences. Therefore it is important to highlight the complex and often ambivalent ways in which performances produce meaning. Apart from explicit and implicit phrasings in for instance lyrics, speeches or parodies, performative practices also include a-semantic modes of experience and perceptions of reality. We invite empirical and conceptual work illustrating this multi-layered ‘signifying’ through performances.

Accepted Abstracts

SESSION 1

Contemporary Dance on Stage in Burkina Faso and Senegal - Creating New Publics

» Nadine Sieveking - Full paper (pdf)

Tamasha ya Sanaa na Utamaduni: Spectacle of Culture, Gift Exchange and Power

Africa Day Festival in Yeoville (Johannesburg, South Africa): Reclaiming a Physical, Social and Political Space

» Pauline Guinard - Full paper (pdf)

SESSION 2

The Politics of « Sensitization » in NGO Practices : « Performance » to the Rescue of a Political Critique

Radio Soccer Commentary as Reconstruction and Performance of Political and Socio-Cultural Reality: The Case of Kenya in the 1980s

» Solomon Waliaula - Full paper (pdf)

From Guguletu to Netreg (Cape Town, South Africa): Moppie Performance and Transformations in Social Representations

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This panel is organised in the framework of the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig, and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research.