Affect, Performance, and Ethnographic Methods in Queer Bathroom Monologues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheila L Cavanagh (0000-0002-8393-2692, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 286-307 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2013.823513 |
| OpenAlex | W2120148149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 40 |
As a critical methodology, performance ethnography offers researchers a unique opportunity to tap into what I call queer social scientific remainders by using the dramatic staging of ethnographic material such that it can be disseminated to audiences in an arts-based dramatic forum. While ethnographers are often drawn to the atmosphere of the theatre and its capacity to give multidimensionality to their research, there is a lack of engagement with queer theory and transgender countercultural aesthetics. There is also an investment in a transcendental truth that negates the possibilities of staging the emotive and unknowable dimensions of the gendered subject. Performance ethnography has become a pedagogically exciting methodological form because it can emotionally engage audiences in topics they would normally avoid. However, such topics must incite curiosity and critical questioning, as opposed to definitive truth claims and easy answers. As evidenced by the play Queer Bathroom Monologues (QBM)—my case study—audiences engage, refuse, query, contest, affectively respond to, and ignore, the difficult and disturbing excesses of research about queer and transgender material
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Affect theory · Amusement · Art · CONTEST · Curiosity · Emotive · Ethnography · Media studies · Political science · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Subject (documents · The arts · Transgender · Visual arts · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
Utopia in Performance
A Queer Sort of Materialism
A critical performance pedagogy that matters
Using Performance Ethnography to Confront Issues of Privilege, Race, and Institutional Racism
Brown Scriptings and Rescriptings
Performative Decolonization
Psychoanalysis and Theatricality
From Enthusiasm to Encounter-Event
Queer in the Field
Pro(re-)claiming Loss
Rethinking elocution
Autoethnography's Family Values
On Possibility
Invisible Lives
Speak Truth and Shame the Devil
Critical Ethnography
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905
The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
Performance as Intravention
Cyclops Cave
The Psychic Life of Power
Acting Up
"Beyond "an Aesthetic of Objectivity
Ethnographic Writing Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Art Installation as Method
Negotiating Shuttling Between Transnational Experiences
White Men Can't Jump
Enacting the social
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |