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Performativity & Belonging

Edited by:

Vikki Bell - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Series:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Other Titles in:
Gender & Sexuality Studies (General) | Social Theory | Sociology of the Body

August 1999 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance and fracture are produced and reproduced. Questions of 'difference' are tackled from a perspective that attends to the complexities of history and politics.

Drawing on sociology, philosophy and anthropology, this collection brings together leading commentators, including Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a range of new scholars. It examines questions of visuality, political affiliation, ethics, mimesis, spatiality, passing, and diversity in modes of embodied difference. The volume advances conceptual and theoretical issues through testing various propositions around specific examples or questions. What emerges is a rich engagement with the complexity of contemporary forms of belonging.

Vikki Bell

Performativity and Belonging

An Introduction

Judith Butler

Revisiting Bodies and Pleasures

Vikki Bell

Historical Memory, Global Movements and Violence

Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai in Conversation

Anne-Marie Fortier

Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)

Chetan Bhatt

Ethnic Absolutism and the Authoritarian Spirit