Title: Geographies of Learning: Theatre Studies, Performance, and the "Performative"
Abstract: Tropes that use performance and to make claims about identity and politics have been proliferating recently in cultural and critical theory. The metaphor of location currently echoes through a number of contemporary political and academic discourses. In feminist studies and activism, for one example, positionality is a strategy that locates one's personal and political investments and perspectives across an argument, a gesture toward placing oneself within a critique of objectivity, but at the same time stopping the spin of post-structuralist or postmodernist instabilities long enough to advance a politically effective action. A position is an unstable but effective point of departure.1
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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