David P Terry
Biographic Data
| ID | 148052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P Terry |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | Terry |
| SIGNATURE | TERRY D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards a less perfect pedagogy
Towards a less perfect pedagogy." Text and Performance Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
What can we do? Performative refusal in Ikaria
The island of Ikaria in the eastern Aegean is often noted for the longevity of its inhabitants. The author attempted an ethnographic study of cultural factors contributing to this longevity, but was systematically thwarted by gatekeepers. They later learned that such performative refusal has long been part of Ikarians’ response to outsiders. This essay argues that these acts of performative refusal are essential sites of co-produced knowledge, ev…
Suburban Dreams
While suburbia per se has not been an object of my research, how I research—as a concrete set of material and embodied performance practices—has long been shaped in response to the rhetorical force
Moment.jpg
When understood as material artifacts, digital photographs are able to do more than represent other times and other places. Their materiality creates performative possibilities of accident and agency that can be particularly useful during times of mourning. This poetic essay responds to a photograph of the author's mother that he took with his cellphone shortly after her death
Presenting Juche
This essay describes an in-person audiencing of North Korea’s 2012 Arirang Mass Games, a massive spectacle featuring the synchronized movement of more than 80,000 performers, which celebrates the birth of the North Korean nation and its continued resistance to foreign incursion. The authors argue that audiencing across cultures must take into account not only the “meaning effects” of propaganda and other cultural productions, but also the “presen…
Showed Us Our Air
Showing Our Work
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid P. TerryDavid P. Terry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University
Alone but Together
This is an ethnographic account of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. The essay argues that, like much performance art, long-distance hiking is best viewed as an eminent performance that does not seek to point to something beyond itself as much as it points to the material conditions of its own making. The insights gained from experiences on the trail reframe ongoing questions of presence and absence in performance scholarship as ques…
[Organizational (Performance] of Race)
This essay addresses the co-constitutive performance of race and organization through a close reading of two racially divided Durham, NC school board meetings that took place in 2005. The analysis is grounded in an analytical framework that treats performance as organizing and organization as performance. We demonstrate how conflict over the “proper” performance of a school board, as either a business emphasizing efficiency or a public service em…
Dancing Communities
Global Co-incidence
Based on ethnographic research at the Areopagos (Mars Hill) in Athens, Greece, this essay seeks to enact a performative poetics of global intersubjectivity. Emphasizing the spatiality of social being and the materiality of discourse, I argue that heterogeneous encounters at charged heterotopic spaces such as the Areopagos offer ways of theorizing belonging that do not assume their interdependent parts have any one necessary thing in common. The s…
Once Blind, Now Seeing
This essay traces some problematics of confessional discourse in which the performative self (doing the confessing) claims to have transcended the constative self (being confessed about) in literary, religious, forensic, and therapeutic contexts. These speech acts cast their audiences as voyeurs or absolute others, allow for the transference of guilt between confessor and confessant, and give the illusion of self-overcoming while leaving broader …
In the Know
Alone but Together
This is an ethnographic account of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. The essay argues that, like much performance art, long-distance hiking is best viewed as an eminent performance that does not seek to point to something beyond itself as much as it points to the material conditions of its own making. The insights gained from experiences on the trail reframe ongoing questions of presence and absence in performance scholarship as ques…
Once Blind, Now Seeing
This essay traces some problematics of confessional discourse in which the performative self (doing the confessing) claims to have transcended the constative self (being confessed about) in literary, religious, forensic, and therapeutic contexts. These speech acts cast their audiences as voyeurs or absolute others, allow for the transference of guilt between confessor and confessant, and give the illusion of self-overcoming while leaving broader …
What can we do? Performative refusal in Ikaria
The island of Ikaria in the eastern Aegean is often noted for the longevity of its inhabitants. The author attempted an ethnographic study of cultural factors contributing to this longevity, but was systematically thwarted by gatekeepers. They later learned that such performative refusal has long been part of Ikarians’ response to outsiders. This essay argues that these acts of performative refusal are essential sites of co-produced knowledge, ev…
Presenting Juche
This essay describes an in-person audiencing of North Korea’s 2012 Arirang Mass Games, a massive spectacle featuring the synchronized movement of more than 80,000 performers, which celebrates the birth of the North Korean nation and its continued resistance to foreign incursion. The authors argue that audiencing across cultures must take into account not only the “meaning effects” of propaganda and other cultural productions, but also the “presen…
[Organizational (Performance] of Race)
This essay addresses the co-constitutive performance of race and organization through a close reading of two racially divided Durham, NC school board meetings that took place in 2005. The analysis is grounded in an analytical framework that treats performance as organizing and organization as performance. We demonstrate how conflict over the “proper” performance of a school board, as either a business emphasizing efficiency or a public service em…
Dancing Communities
In the Know
Once Blind, Now Seeing
This essay traces some problematics of confessional discourse in which the performative self (doing the confessing) claims to have transcended the constative self (being confessed about) in literary, religious, forensic, and therapeutic contexts. These speech acts cast their audiences as voyeurs or absolute others, allow for the transference of guilt between confessor and confessant, and give the illusion of self-overcoming while leaving broader …
In the Know
Dancing Communities
Global Co-incidence
Based on ethnographic research at the Areopagos (Mars Hill) in Athens, Greece, this essay seeks to enact a performative poetics of global intersubjectivity. Emphasizing the spatiality of social being and the materiality of discourse, I argue that heterogeneous encounters at charged heterotopic spaces such as the Areopagos offer ways of theorizing belonging that do not assume their interdependent parts have any one necessary thing in common. The s…
[Organizational (Performance] of Race)
This essay addresses the co-constitutive performance of race and organization through a close reading of two racially divided Durham, NC school board meetings that took place in 2005. The analysis is grounded in an analytical framework that treats performance as organizing and organization as performance. We demonstrate how conflict over the “proper” performance of a school board, as either a business emphasizing efficiency or a public service em…
Showing Our Work
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid P. TerryDavid P. Terry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University
Alone but Together
This is an ethnographic account of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. The essay argues that, like much performance art, long-distance hiking is best viewed as an eminent performance that does not seek to point to something beyond itself as much as it points to the material conditions of its own making. The insights gained from experiences on the trail reframe ongoing questions of presence and absence in performance scholarship as ques…
Moment.jpg
When understood as material artifacts, digital photographs are able to do more than represent other times and other places. Their materiality creates performative possibilities of accident and agency that can be particularly useful during times of mourning. This poetic essay responds to a photograph of the author's mother that he took with his cellphone shortly after her death
Presenting Juche
This essay describes an in-person audiencing of North Korea’s 2012 Arirang Mass Games, a massive spectacle featuring the synchronized movement of more than 80,000 performers, which celebrates the birth of the North Korean nation and its continued resistance to foreign incursion. The authors argue that audiencing across cultures must take into account not only the “meaning effects” of propaganda and other cultural productions, but also the “presen…
Showed Us Our Air
Suburban Dreams
While suburbia per se has not been an object of my research, how I research—as a concrete set of material and embodied performance practices—has long been shaped in response to the rhetorical force
What can we do? Performative refusal in Ikaria
The island of Ikaria in the eastern Aegean is often noted for the longevity of its inhabitants. The author attempted an ethnographic study of cultural factors contributing to this longevity, but was systematically thwarted by gatekeepers. They later learned that such performative refusal has long been part of Ikarians’ response to outsiders. This essay argues that these acts of performative refusal are essential sites of co-produced knowledge, ev…
Towards a less perfect pedagogy
Towards a less perfect pedagogy." Text and Performance Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
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