Remember that enduring scene in Philippine cinema?
Lavinia lashed out her judgmental exasperation towards Dorina's seeming lack of creditable talent. One can argue that Lavinia was 'acting out' and Dorina was 'making do' in the performance of the 'self'. Or was it the other way around? According to Judith Butler, performance and practice produce and subvert discourse and knowledge that likewise enable and discipline subjects and their performances.
Following Butler, geographers Nicky Gregson and Gillian Rose argue for the recognition that spaces, too, need to be thought of as performative, and we need to unpack the complexity and instability of performances and performed spaces.
So what are you waiting for? If you have ideas that intersect performative geographies broadly, send an abstract to the International Conference on Geographical Studies (ICGS) that is happening 24-25 November 2023 via remote platform. The original call can be found here, or you can click this link instead:
https://tinyurl.com/mr3a8ntp
To further illustrate Lavinia and Dorina's relational entanglements, your topic can be about non-essentialized constructions of marginalized identities, landscapes, practices and various conflicts in combinations and intersections with historiographies, environmental humanities, theatre studies, visual anthropology and other lenses, methods, and discourses.
You can also use performativities, embodiments, enactments or 'doing' in a broad range of topics: the performance of violence in housing displacements, caring for adults who are living alone, dance as playful and expressive embodiment, class-based conflicts in the enactment of different versions of masculinity, establishment of safe spaces, queer identities, erasures and 'quantum entanglements' (following Niels Bohr), filmed performances, toxicities in classrooms, or the emotional lives of cartographers. Surprise us with your stories and provocations by sending us your abstract.
The deadline for abstract submission is 6 November 2023 via this link: https://bit.ly/ICGS2023Abstracts
We love what Filipina geographer Vanessa Banta said about performance space. It is a strategic place to meet in which "everyone could encounter each other." Lavinia will probably not like that, but Dorina might.
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