Meghanne M Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 110402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghanne M Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghanne M |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Education, Practice and Society at IOE UCL's Faculty of Education and Society London UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3399-1675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Following Signs of Sentiment: Chronotopes of Feeling at Expo Astana
In the summer of 2017, Kazakhstan’s capital city hosted a world exposition with “future energy” as its theme. The EXPO cultivated a chronotope of feeling, intertwining time, space, and affect. Hosts and visitors were asked to channel their energy to pull Kazakhstan into the future. Tropes of Kazakhstan as a vast, empty space formed the backdrop for the EXPO to emerge. This project aligns with ongoing efforts in Kazakhstan to not only cast its new…
Higher truths and so‐called lies: Documentary's animated authenticity
A masterclass in Serbia on documentary film debates creativity. Experimental and documentary filmmakers in the region assert the boundaries of documentary in order to transgress them. Creativity offers a means to authenticity, animated through viewers' projection. Approaching authenticity as animated rejects preoccupations with the mechanical indexicality of the camera. Rather than focusing on index as trace, the ambivalence of indexicality produ…
You Have Been Misconnected
One face in the crowd meets another. Eyes lock, only to disappear again. Craigslist missed connections, a minor genre of the personal ad, reveal the imbrication of mediation and missing. They articulate anxieties over shifting relations in cityscapes and communication infrastructures. This article treats missing as an act and affect defined through mediation. Studying a vernacular narrative form such as the missed-connections ad offers insight on…
From Stage to Page and Back Again: Remediating Petrushka in Early Soviet Children's Culture
Early Soviet children's book authors and puppet theaters remediated the figure of Petrushka. As such, the prankster puppet traversed boundaries between book and stage. Books about mischievous Petrushka and friends invited children to create homemade puppet shows, encouraging children to manipulate and animate objects around them. Beginning in 1930, meanwhile, a new Theater of the Children's Book used puppetry to mobilize children into novel engag…
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
Reviewed by: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery Meghanne Barker Katherine Verdery, My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 344 pp. Katherine Verdery introduces My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File as a "polyphonic" work. Indeed, it masterfully interweaves Verdery's voice at the moment of writing, that of herself during her fieldwo…
Dancing Dolls: Animating Childhood in a Contemporary Kazakhstani Institution
This article shows how marginalized children use performance to animate hyperbolic representations of ideal childhood at a state-run home for children in Kazakhstan. Children growing up in institutional group homes, such as orphanages, are frequently objects of pity and stigmatization. These institutions rely on state and private donations. They compete for continued support with an increasingly diverse field of alternative social welfare program…
Intersubjective Traps over Tricks on the Kazakhstani Puppet Stage: Animation as Dicentization
This article introduces puppet animation as a process of dicentization, in which the puppet's resemblance to a living creature is treated as if it resulted from the object being alive. This act requires recognition that the puppet is only an object, accompanied by a momentary forgetting. At a state-funded theater in Kazakhstan, animation is achieved through a complex participant framework. Any component can jeopardize successful animation, yet th…
Putting an End to the Rain of Apostrophes
Intersubjective Traps over Tricks on the Kazakhstani Puppet Stage: Animation as Dicentization
This article introduces puppet animation as a process of dicentization, in which the puppet's resemblance to a living creature is treated as if it resulted from the object being alive. This act requires recognition that the puppet is only an object, accompanied by a momentary forgetting. At a state-funded theater in Kazakhstan, animation is achieved through a complex participant framework. Any component can jeopardize successful animation, yet th…
Dancing Dolls: Animating Childhood in a Contemporary Kazakhstani Institution
This article shows how marginalized children use performance to animate hyperbolic representations of ideal childhood at a state-run home for children in Kazakhstan. Children growing up in institutional group homes, such as orphanages, are frequently objects of pity and stigmatization. These institutions rely on state and private donations. They compete for continued support with an increasingly diverse field of alternative social welfare program…
Putting an End to the Rain of Apostrophes
Dancing Dolls: Animating Childhood in a Contemporary Kazakhstani Institution
This article shows how marginalized children use performance to animate hyperbolic representations of ideal childhood at a state-run home for children in Kazakhstan. Children growing up in institutional group homes, such as orphanages, are frequently objects of pity and stigmatization. These institutions rely on state and private donations. They compete for continued support with an increasingly diverse field of alternative social welfare program…
Intersubjective Traps over Tricks on the Kazakhstani Puppet Stage: Animation as Dicentization
This article introduces puppet animation as a process of dicentization, in which the puppet's resemblance to a living creature is treated as if it resulted from the object being alive. This act requires recognition that the puppet is only an object, accompanied by a momentary forgetting. At a state-funded theater in Kazakhstan, animation is achieved through a complex participant framework. Any component can jeopardize successful animation, yet th…
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
Reviewed by: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery Meghanne Barker Katherine Verdery, My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 344 pp. Katherine Verdery introduces My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File as a "polyphonic" work. Indeed, it masterfully interweaves Verdery's voice at the moment of writing, that of herself during her fieldwo…
From Stage to Page and Back Again: Remediating Petrushka in Early Soviet Children's Culture
Early Soviet children's book authors and puppet theaters remediated the figure of Petrushka. As such, the prankster puppet traversed boundaries between book and stage. Books about mischievous Petrushka and friends invited children to create homemade puppet shows, encouraging children to manipulate and animate objects around them. Beginning in 1930, meanwhile, a new Theater of the Children's Book used puppetry to mobilize children into novel engag…
Higher truths and so‐called lies: Documentary's animated authenticity
A masterclass in Serbia on documentary film debates creativity. Experimental and documentary filmmakers in the region assert the boundaries of documentary in order to transgress them. Creativity offers a means to authenticity, animated through viewers' projection. Approaching authenticity as animated rejects preoccupations with the mechanical indexicality of the camera. Rather than focusing on index as trace, the ambivalence of indexicality produ…
You Have Been Misconnected
One face in the crowd meets another. Eyes lock, only to disappear again. Craigslist missed connections, a minor genre of the personal ad, reveal the imbrication of mediation and missing. They articulate anxieties over shifting relations in cityscapes and communication infrastructures. This article treats missing as an act and affect defined through mediation. Studying a vernacular narrative form such as the missed-connections ad offers insight on…
Following Signs of Sentiment: Chronotopes of Feeling at Expo Astana
In the summer of 2017, Kazakhstan’s capital city hosted a world exposition with “future energy” as its theme. The EXPO cultivated a chronotope of feeling, intertwining time, space, and affect. Hosts and visitors were asked to channel their energy to pull Kazakhstan into the future. Tropes of Kazakhstan as a vast, empty space formed the backdrop for the EXPO to emerge. This project aligns with ongoing efforts in Kazakhstan to not only cast its new…
Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works)