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* Provides a wide-ranging contemporary overview of an evolving
subfield of anthropology * Features cutting-edge research and
explores the production and uses of new technologies * Draws on
ethnographic studies carried out in six continents and covers an
array of social, ethnic, and generational groups * Explores past
and present collaborations between anthropology, media and cultural
studies, STS, and sociology.
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Conduit (Paperback)
Nell Haynes
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Nell Haynes
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A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment,
professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its
long history of working contemporary events into storylines and
commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, professional
wrestling is also intrinsically political. Its
performance-theatricalities, machinations and conditions of
production, figurations, and audiences-arises from and engages with
the world around. Whether flowing with the mainstream of popular
culture or fighting at the fringes, professional wrestling shows us
how we are fighting, what we are fighting about, and what we are
fighting for. This edited volume asks how professional wrestling is
implicated in the current resurgence of populist politics, whether
right-wing and Trump-inflected, or leftist and socialist. How might
it do more than reflect and, in so doing, reaffirm the status quo?
While provoked by the disruptive performances of Trump as candidate
and president, and mindful of his longstanding ties to the WWE,
this timely volume looks more broadly and internationally at the
infusion of professional wrestling's worldview into the twinned
discourses of politics and populism. The contributors are scholars
from a wide range of disciplines: theater and performance studies;
cultural, media, and communication studies; anthropology and
sociology; and gender and sexuality studies. Together they argue
that the game's popularity and its populist tendencies open it to
the left as well as to the right, to contestation as well as to
conformity, making it an ideal site for working on feminist and
activist projects and ideas.
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