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The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods
have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising
consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words,
are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly
contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double
relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western
universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and
neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an
argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western
traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have
largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and
situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal
are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume
tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social
practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It
asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete
settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a
shared humanity?   With contributions by Isaac Bazié, Anil
Bhatti, Jean-Luc Chappey, Elsie Cohen, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane
Bachir Diagne, Nicole Fischer, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson,
Fatma Hotait, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya
Jahanara Kabir, Mario Laarmann, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud,
Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Maria-Anna Schiffers, Laurens
Schlicht, Sergio Ugalde, Hélène Thierard, Khadija von Zinnenburg
Carroll.
The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss
peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance
and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement
with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative
potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider
collectives.
The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss
peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance
and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement
with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative
potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider
collectives.
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public
theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution
in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts
analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change,
racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical
contemporary cultural production positions itself in relation to
the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult
heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts. Jonas Tinius'
fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural policy
makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a
site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with
the pervasive German cultural tradition of Bildung, or
self-cultivation through the arts. Tinius shows how anthropological
methods provide a way to understand the entanglement of cultural
policy, institution-building, and subject-formation. An ambitious
and interdisciplinary study, the work demonstrates the crucial role
of artistic intellectuals in society.
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