D Soyini Madison
Biographic Data
| ID | 11208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Soyini Madison |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Soyini |
| FAMILY NAME | Madison |
| SIGNATURE | MADISON D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Performance Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Albatross and the Ethnographer
Performed ethnography and communication improvisation and embodied experience
Performance, Ethnography, and Communication addresses the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections, Embodied Technique and Practice, and Oral History and Personal Narrative Performance.Each includes specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and acti…
The Imaginative Ethnographer as Vagabond Bricoleur
This interview discusses the infinity of stories as an endless reservoir of imagining new forms of meaning, feeling and embodiment of fieldwork data. Thinking of ethnographic analysis and experience as a collaborative process of performance and creative expression is an alternative to the prevailing textocentric documentation that demands both a political economy of contexts and an ethics of loving attention
Ethnography Across Storytelling and the Senses
This essay will discuss the embodied praxis of ethnography and how the felt sensing experiences of fieldwork research are enacted and translated both within the intimate, ethnographic spaces of those everyday moments in the field that are all at once filled with pleasure, politics, and beauty. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improve…
Refugee Performance
Reviewed by: Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters ed. by Michael Balfour D. Soyini Madison REFUGEE PERFORMANCE: PRACTICAL ENCOUNTERS. Edited by Michael Balfour. Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2012; pp. 224. Michael Balfour’s collection brings together artists, academics, researchers, activists, and those who lived their lives as refugees and employ performance as a “tactic” to tell true stories, to offer imagined stories, and to set in motion alter…
The Performative Sustainability of Race
Lost in Translation
We celebrate the fact that performance enriches rhetoric through embodied purpose, heartfelt empathy, and symbolic action while rhetoric politicizes performance through contested assumptions, discu
That Was Then and This Is Now
The Mike Daisey Affair
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
The Labor of Reflexivity
Reflexivity is examined as an act of labor. Employing Tami Spry and Della Pollock's discretely different articulations of the 'performative' and the 'I,' reflexivity becomes a particular quality of labor that works to leave something behind, something that lingers, something that will remain long after our reflexive work takes form. What labor as reflexivity leaves behind both embraces and jettisons notions of hauntings and memories, because it c…
Performance is a Promiscuous Lover
Acts of Activism
This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies: Act One presents a battle between tradition and modernity as the bodies of African …
Crazy Patriotism and Angry (Post)Black Women
Performing Ethnography
Co-Performative Witnessing
It was a summer evening, 23 July 2003. Dwight and I were taking a slow stroll down Church Street in downtown Evanston after a luscious and delightfully relaxing dinner at Wolfgang-Puck Grand Cafe
Dwight Conquergood's “Rethinking Ethnography”
The Dialogic Performative in Critical Ethnography
The most difficult, the most risky, the most awe-inspiring gift of performance and what holds the ethical imperative in its nervous embrace is what some have referred to as the dialogic performativ
Critical Ethnography
Critical Ethnography represents the best of Professor Madison's work. As a fan of her written scholarship for a long time, I am pleased to see both this book and Madison's unique voice in it. Thanks to this text, our students will be better prepared for engaging others." John T. Warren, Bowling Green State University "Critical Ethnography is a rare and beautiful synthesis of deft theorizing and principled pragmatics. The complexities of ethnograp…
Oedipus Rex at Eve's Bayou or the Little Black Girl Who Left Sigmund Freud in the Swamp
This writing ‘performs’ theory and ‘embodies’ writing as it questions specific psychoanalytic theories of the phallus, the mirror and jouissance in the context of ruminations of what it means to make art and judge it. Art, theory, and blackness are at once essentialized and fragmented in the pull between Lacanian notions of phallic power and the notions of a black woman needing to respond to the changing demands of truth and creation. Noir, a wom…
Performing theory/embodied writing
This essay performatively expresses specific theoretical ruminations on class, language, and race. This writing is a performance, while it is or is not necessarily for the “stage.” The performance seeks a felt‐sensing meeting between theory, writing, and performing. The performer claims an uneasy possession of performance as a means of both subjectivity and freedom. Theory becomes another way to know performance better; and performance becomes th…
Let's Get It on
Cuba
The Woman That I Am
Unfinished business
The driving force in this profoundly necessary and absorbing book is how “Performance makes structural economies go!” (xi). Capital and political economy order and influence every organism on this
Critical Ethnography
Critical Ethnography represents the best of Professor Madison's work. As a fan of her written scholarship for a long time, I am pleased to see both this book and Madison's unique voice in it. Thanks to this text, our students will be better prepared for engaging others." John T. Warren, Bowling Green State University "Critical Ethnography is a rare and beautiful synthesis of deft theorizing and principled pragmatics. The complexities of ethnograp…
That was my occupation
Black feminist thought supports the interdependence of what are called "theories of the flesh" and "specialized knowledge." Theories of the flesh reflect the distinctive interpretations of the world carved out of the material realities of a group's life experiences. Specialized knowledge infuses elements and themes of black women's culture and traditions with critical interventionist thinking to provide black women with new tools of resistance. T…
Performing theory/embodied writing
This essay performatively expresses specific theoretical ruminations on class, language, and race. This writing is a performance, while it is or is not necessarily for the “stage.” The performance seeks a felt‐sensing meeting between theory, writing, and performing. The performer claims an uneasy possession of performance as a means of both subjectivity and freedom. Theory becomes another way to know performance better; and performance becomes th…
The Dialogic Performative in Critical Ethnography
The most difficult, the most risky, the most awe-inspiring gift of performance and what holds the ethical imperative in its nervous embrace is what some have referred to as the dialogic performativ
The Labor of Reflexivity
Reflexivity is examined as an act of labor. Employing Tami Spry and Della Pollock's discretely different articulations of the 'performative' and the 'I,' reflexivity becomes a particular quality of labor that works to leave something behind, something that lingers, something that will remain long after our reflexive work takes form. What labor as reflexivity leaves behind both embraces and jettisons notions of hauntings and memories, because it c…
Co-Performative Witnessing
It was a summer evening, 23 July 2003. Dwight and I were taking a slow stroll down Church Street in downtown Evanston after a luscious and delightfully relaxing dinner at Wolfgang-Puck Grand Cafe
Performed ethnography and communication improvisation and embodied experience
Performance, Ethnography, and Communication addresses the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections, Embodied Technique and Practice, and Oral History and Personal Narrative Performance.Each includes specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and acti…
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
Lost in Translation
We celebrate the fact that performance enriches rhetoric through embodied purpose, heartfelt empathy, and symbolic action while rhetoric politicizes performance through contested assumptions, discu
Crazy Patriotism and Angry (Post)Black Women
Performing Ethnography
That Was Then and This Is Now
That was my occupation
Black feminist thought supports the interdependence of what are called "theories of the flesh" and "specialized knowledge." Theories of the flesh reflect the distinctive interpretations of the world carved out of the material realities of a group's life experiences. Specialized knowledge infuses elements and themes of black women's culture and traditions with critical interventionist thinking to provide black women with new tools of resistance. T…
Books in review
BODY, MOVEMENT, AND CULTURE: KINESTHETIC AND VISUAL SYMBOLISM IN A PHILIPPINE COMMUNITY. By Sally Ann Ness. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, pp. xii‐292; paper $16.95. ON EDGE: PERFORMANCE AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By C. Carr. Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England/Wesleyan University Press, 1993; pp. xxii‐333; $40.00; paper $16.95. THEATRE, THEORY, POSTMODERNISM. By Johannes Birringer. Bloomingto…
Performing theory/embodied writing
This essay performatively expresses specific theoretical ruminations on class, language, and race. This writing is a performance, while it is or is not necessarily for the “stage.” The performance seeks a felt‐sensing meeting between theory, writing, and performing. The performer claims an uneasy possession of performance as a means of both subjectivity and freedom. Theory becomes another way to know performance better; and performance becomes th…
Let's Get It on
Cuba
Oedipus Rex at Eve's Bayou or the Little Black Girl Who Left Sigmund Freud in the Swamp
This writing ‘performs’ theory and ‘embodies’ writing as it questions specific psychoanalytic theories of the phallus, the mirror and jouissance in the context of ruminations of what it means to make art and judge it. Art, theory, and blackness are at once essentialized and fragmented in the pull between Lacanian notions of phallic power and the notions of a black woman needing to respond to the changing demands of truth and creation. Noir, a wom…
Critical Ethnography
Critical Ethnography represents the best of Professor Madison's work. As a fan of her written scholarship for a long time, I am pleased to see both this book and Madison's unique voice in it. Thanks to this text, our students will be better prepared for engaging others." John T. Warren, Bowling Green State University "Critical Ethnography is a rare and beautiful synthesis of deft theorizing and principled pragmatics. The complexities of ethnograp…
Dwight Conquergood's “Rethinking Ethnography”
The Dialogic Performative in Critical Ethnography
The most difficult, the most risky, the most awe-inspiring gift of performance and what holds the ethical imperative in its nervous embrace is what some have referred to as the dialogic performativ
Performing Ethnography
Co-Performative Witnessing
It was a summer evening, 23 July 2003. Dwight and I were taking a slow stroll down Church Street in downtown Evanston after a luscious and delightfully relaxing dinner at Wolfgang-Puck Grand Cafe
Crazy Patriotism and Angry (Post)Black Women
Performance is a Promiscuous Lover
Acts of Activism
This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies: Act One presents a battle between tradition and modernity as the bodies of African …
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
The Labor of Reflexivity
Reflexivity is examined as an act of labor. Employing Tami Spry and Della Pollock's discretely different articulations of the 'performative' and the 'I,' reflexivity becomes a particular quality of labor that works to leave something behind, something that lingers, something that will remain long after our reflexive work takes form. What labor as reflexivity leaves behind both embraces and jettisons notions of hauntings and memories, because it c…
The Mike Daisey Affair
Lost in Translation
We celebrate the fact that performance enriches rhetoric through embodied purpose, heartfelt empathy, and symbolic action while rhetoric politicizes performance through contested assumptions, discu
That Was Then and This Is Now
The Performative Sustainability of Race
Refugee Performance
Reviewed by: Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters ed. by Michael Balfour D. Soyini Madison REFUGEE PERFORMANCE: PRACTICAL ENCOUNTERS. Edited by Michael Balfour. Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2012; pp. 224. Michael Balfour’s collection brings together artists, academics, researchers, activists, and those who lived their lives as refugees and employ performance as a “tactic” to tell true stories, to offer imagined stories, and to set in motion alter…
Ethnography Across Storytelling and the Senses
This essay will discuss the embodied praxis of ethnography and how the felt sensing experiences of fieldwork research are enacted and translated both within the intimate, ethnographic spaces of those everyday moments in the field that are all at once filled with pleasure, politics, and beauty. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improve…
Performed ethnography and communication improvisation and embodied experience
Performance, Ethnography, and Communication addresses the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections, Embodied Technique and Practice, and Oral History and Personal Narrative Performance.Each includes specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and acti…
The Imaginative Ethnographer as Vagabond Bricoleur
This interview discusses the infinity of stories as an endless reservoir of imagining new forms of meaning, feeling and embodiment of fieldwork data. Thinking of ethnographic analysis and experience as a collaborative process of performance and creative expression is an alternative to the prevailing textocentric documentation that demands both a political economy of contexts and an ethics of loving attention
The Woman That I Am
Sociology (21 works) · Art (20 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Ethnography (8 works)