Overview
- Contributes to recent critical scholarship of performance and the airport, exploring dance specifically
- Extends thinking about contemporary cosmopolitanism and cultural identity
- Utilises innovative ethnographic approaches that extend ideas from sensory ethnography
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Taking an ethnographically-inflected approach, this study brings together knowledge of the moving body from dance and performance and the study of systems of mobility within cultural and mobilities studies, in order to call attention to the kinaesthetic experience of global space. What is the choreography of the global airport? How does it perform on us. How do we perform within it?
Extending thinking about contemporary cosmopolitanism and cultural identity, and the performativity of places and identities, this book is essential reading for those interested in cultural debates around globalisation, the innovative application of performancetheory towards everyday experience, and interdisciplinary methodologies.
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“This is more than an original exploration of the choreographed spatiality of airports. It is for all those interested by the way one moves in and is moved by space in the era of transnational mobility. What’s more, the text itself is a well choreographed festival of intelligently deployed theory speaking to acutely observed ethnographic material traversed by sharp socio-political observations that make it a pleasure to read.” (Ghassan Hage, School of Social and Political Science, University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Book Title: Choreographing the Airport
Book Subtitle: Field Notes from the Transit Spaces of Global Mobility
Authors: Justine Shih Pearson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69572-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69571-6Published: 25 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69572-3Published: 12 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 133
Topics: Performing Arts, Global/International Culture, Dance, Culture and Technology