Jonathon Repinecz
Biographic Data
| ID | 209008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathon Repinecz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathon |
| FAMILY NAME | Repinecz |
| SIGNATURE | REPINECZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2539-2309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Senegalese Wrestling between Nostalgia and Neoliberalism
This article examines the cultural ambiguity of Senegalese wrestling. Certain discourses around this sport have constructed it as a nostalgic embodiment of traditional, national, or African values. At the same time, other discourses emphasize the sport's commercialization, its embeddedness in the economics of precarity, and even its inventedness as a tradition. The case of Senegalese wrestling illustrates how traditionality is summoned and put to…
Subversive Traditions
The tales of tomorrow
Boubacar Boris Diop's novel Doomi Golo (2003)/Les Petits de la guenon (2009 Diop, Boubacar Boris. 2009. Les Petits de la guenon. Paris: Phippe Rey. [Google Scholar]) elaborates a specifically futurist aesthetic of traditionality. Drawing on the shift in anthropology towards understanding traditionality as a construct rather than an intrinsic trait, I show how this novel strongly thematizes the inventedness of Senegalese oral traditions and calls …
Senegalese Wrestling between Nostalgia and Neoliberalism
This article examines the cultural ambiguity of Senegalese wrestling. Certain discourses around this sport have constructed it as a nostalgic embodiment of traditional, national, or African values. At the same time, other discourses emphasize the sport's commercialization, its embeddedness in the economics of precarity, and even its inventedness as a tradition. The case of Senegalese wrestling illustrates how traditionality is summoned and put to…
The tales of tomorrow
Boubacar Boris Diop's novel Doomi Golo (2003)/Les Petits de la guenon (2009 Diop, Boubacar Boris. 2009. Les Petits de la guenon. Paris: Phippe Rey. [Google Scholar]) elaborates a specifically futurist aesthetic of traditionality. Drawing on the shift in anthropology towards understanding traditionality as a construct rather than an intrinsic trait, I show how this novel strongly thematizes the inventedness of Senegalese oral traditions and calls …
Subversive Traditions
Senegalese Wrestling between Nostalgia and Neoliberalism
This article examines the cultural ambiguity of Senegalese wrestling. Certain discourses around this sport have constructed it as a nostalgic embodiment of traditional, national, or African values. At the same time, other discourses emphasize the sport's commercialization, its embeddedness in the economics of precarity, and even its inventedness as a tradition. The case of Senegalese wrestling illustrates how traditionality is summoned and put to…
History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African Epic poetry (1 work) · African fiction (French) (1 work)