Shannon Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seeing with Hands
This article addresses the role of perceptual learning in the development of surgical skill. We propose perceptual learning, specifically haptic memory and active touch, provide the durable foundations of professional surgical skill, which cannot be replaced by the cognitive models that dominate many teaching modalities. To substantiate this, we combine ethnographic interviews with craftsmen, specifically artists and surgeons to establish haptic …
Making sense of the politics of sanitation in Cape Town
The paper examines the history and politics of sanitation and urban belonging and citizenship in Cape Town. It traces the cultural histories of waste and odour in order to reveal the embedding of liberal citizenship, as well as technology, in the body. We do this to make sense of why and how toilets and waste have become recent objects and instruments of struggle in Cape Town, and elsewhere. The paper shows that these political struggles did not …
Visual Activism across Visual Cultures
Time Zones
Exploring the emergence of the rubric "time-based art" across several disciplinary formations, including performance and visual art, this editors' introduction outlines some historical theories of duration across the arts and argues for a contextual approach that accounts for both medium and institutional location
The Way We Perform Now
This piece is adapted from a lecture delivered in the “Performing Institutions” series curated by Artists Space with the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The event also included David Velasco of Artforum as well as Sarah Michelson, who had just become the first choreographer to win the Bucksbaum Award for the best work presented at the Whitney Biennial. Artists Space represented the Performing Institutions series in the following terms: “Taking as its star…
Just-in-Time
Integrating post-Operaismo social theory with recent turns in performance studies shows how such theory complicates and is complicated by cross-arts questions around virtuosity and affective labor. Such complications emerge, not only in the contemporary art sphere, but also in the history and theory developed by performance studies as a discipline
Social Works
No Dig, No Fly, No Go
Reviewed by: No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control Shannon Jackson (bio) No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control. By Mark Monmonier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vi+242. $18. No Dig, No Fly, No Go is the latest installation of a larger series by Mark Monmonier addressing the history and social significance of maps. He describes it as an extension of his more foundational and, likely, more familiar [E…
Technology, Bodily Limits, and Ways of Knowing
This analysis of Joy Parr's Sensing Changes (2010) connects the central themes of her historical and ethnographic accounts of megaprojects in Canada to broader arguments about the relationship between historically situated bodies and technologies. Much of what is being traced in her case studies is a very local reckoning of how bodies create, employ, and transmit expertise about landscape, be it natural or cultural or both. Her emphasis on the lo…
Professing Performance
Concentrating creativity
The Technology of Policing
Commentary
Despite a common concern for social change, the multidisciplinary fields of city planning and performance studies rely on different theories, epistemologies, and language. We argue that these fields share common roots and would benefit from integrating their approaches.We use three issues in community arts, along with a case study from Oakland, California, as a lens into this new joint epistemology. The first is the concern over arts as instrumen…
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
The City from Thirty Thousand Feet
The City from Thirty Thousand FeetEmbodiment, Creativity, and the Use of Geographic Information Systems as Urban Planning Tools Shannon Jackson (bio) For some time, and in ever increasing numbers, governments and other kinds of organizations involved in urban planning have been using a multifaceted computer application known as a geographic information system (GIS). A GIS is, essentially, a software tool that stores, manipulates, and displays dat…
Caravans Continued
The heterogeneity of the memorial gathering for the late Dwight Conquergood reveals the disciplinary legacies of what is sometimes erroneously called the “Northwestern” strain of performance studies in the United States—which Conquergood was key in developing
Caravans Continued
Performing Show and Tell
This article analyzes parallels and discontinuities between performance studies and visual culture studies, arguing that a comparison between the two newer fields provides a way of foregrounding the stakes faced in their shared consolidation. It considers the ways that the turn from art history to visual culture studies parallels a turn from theater studies to performance studies. However, it also shows places where the parallels break down, espe…
Cape Colonial Architecture, Town Planning, and the Crafting of Moden Space in South Africa
Architecture and the built environment in Cape Town provide clues and insight into the spatial models that inform continuities and contradictions in the structuring of rules regulating contact and conduct in urban dwellers' daily routines. This paper explores the transition from classical to modernist space in colonial and postcolonial Cape Town to address some of the tensions informing the use of race and gender distinctions to obscure the relat…
Language in Cape Town's District Six
1. Introduction 2. A history of language contact in the Cape Town area 3. Perceptions of District Six: the place and its people 4. Field work in the focal neighbourhood 5. The Chapel Street neighbourhood and its codes 6. Code choices in the family, the neighbourhood, the workplace 7. Language in the schools 8. Bilingual dialogue 9. Conclusion
Then I Was Black
Partial publicity and gendered remembering
This essay brings representational issues of female publicity into recent discussions about space, community and memory. Cultural analysts in a variety of fields have used these concepts to foreground the radically contextual and socially embedded nature of artistic production as well as to incorporate psychic and material notions of representation into the analysis of the political. I argue that such conceptual work is implicitly gendered, somet…
Professing Performance, Disciplinary Genealogies
A century ago there were no university “theatre departments.” Jack-son digs into the archives to recount the story of how some “white academic American men” figured prominently in the academic insti-tutionalization of “performance.”
Tourism in Performance
Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display From Waikiki to Sea World. By Jane C. Desmond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 336 pages. $30.00 (cloth). $15.00 (paper). "The genesis of this book," writes Jane Desmond, "came from a sense of shock" (xiii). Indeed, the tourist experience can be quite a shocker--perhaps more disturbingly so when its conventions of display and appropriation pass unnoticed. In her book, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Displ…
Miscast
THERE ARE TWO museums in South Africa competing for representation and commentary on `who are the Bushmen?'. The South African Museum and the South African National Gallery, situated across from each other in Cape Town's Company Gardens, combine efforts to concretise a debate regarding how the indigenous categories, `Bushman' and `Khoisan' (1), can be publicly represented. The two museums draw together different and changing historical relationsh…
Commentary
Despite a common concern for social change, the multidisciplinary fields of city planning and performance studies rely on different theories, epistemologies, and language. We argue that these fields share common roots and would benefit from integrating their approaches.We use three issues in community arts, along with a case study from Oakland, California, as a lens into this new joint epistemology. The first is the concern over arts as instrumen…
Miscast
THERE ARE TWO museums in South Africa competing for representation and commentary on `who are the Bushmen?'. The South African Museum and the South African National Gallery, situated across from each other in Cape Town's Company Gardens, combine efforts to concretise a debate regarding how the indigenous categories, `Bushman' and `Khoisan' (1), can be publicly represented. The two museums draw together different and changing historical relationsh…
Ethnography and the audition
This essay documents an experiment in the performance of ethnography based on research collected on the audition process. I used a variety of scripting and performance techniques combined with insights from cultural theory to evoke, dramatize, and critique a practice within the institution of theatre. Additionally, I describe the entry of other actors into the process, our rehearsal, the experience of performance, and the evaluation and reflectio…
Civic Play-Housekeeping
Civic Play-Housekeeping: Gender, Theatre, and American Reform Shannon Jackson (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Program for The Marionette Club’s production of “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.” Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” 1920. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Saturday dance class in Bowen Hall, circa 1930. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure…
The Way We Perform Now
This piece is adapted from a lecture delivered in the “Performing Institutions” series curated by Artists Space with the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The event also included David Velasco of Artforum as well as Sarah Michelson, who had just become the first choreographer to win the Bucksbaum Award for the best work presented at the Whitney Biennial. Artists Space represented the Performing Institutions series in the following terms: “Taking as its star…
Making sense of the politics of sanitation in Cape Town
The paper examines the history and politics of sanitation and urban belonging and citizenship in Cape Town. It traces the cultural histories of waste and odour in order to reveal the embedding of liberal citizenship, as well as technology, in the body. We do this to make sense of why and how toilets and waste have become recent objects and instruments of struggle in Cape Town, and elsewhere. The paper shows that these political struggles did not …
Partial publicity and gendered remembering
This essay brings representational issues of female publicity into recent discussions about space, community and memory. Cultural analysts in a variety of fields have used these concepts to foreground the radically contextual and socially embedded nature of artistic production as well as to incorporate psychic and material notions of representation into the analysis of the political. I argue that such conceptual work is implicitly gendered, somet…
Unmaking Mimesis
Reviewed by: Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre Shannon Jackson Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre. By Elin Diamond. London and New York: Routledge, 1998; pp. 226. $75.00 cloth, $19.99 paper. With the publication of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre, Elin Diamond affirms her international reputation as one of the most important feminist theorists of Western theatre. Synthesizing and extending several of …
Representing Rape
Ethnography and the audition
This essay documents an experiment in the performance of ethnography based on research collected on the audition process. I used a variety of scripting and performance techniques combined with insights from cultural theory to evoke, dramatize, and critique a practice within the institution of theatre. Additionally, I describe the entry of other actors into the process, our rehearsal, the experience of performance, and the evaluation and reflectio…
Civic Play-Housekeeping
Civic Play-Housekeeping: Gender, Theatre, and American Reform Shannon Jackson (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Program for The Marionette Club’s production of “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.” Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” 1920. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Saturday dance class in Bowen Hall, circa 1930. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure…
Performance
Reviewed by: Performance: A Critical Introduction, and: The Twentieth-century Performance Reader Shannon Jackson Performance: A Critical Introduction. By Marvin Carlson. London: Routledge, 1996; 247 pp. $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. The Twentieth-century Performance Reader. Edited by Michael Huxley and Noel Witts. London: Routledge, 1996; 421 pp. $69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Today’s academic discourse is well-populated with p-words. Nestled amongst …
White Noises
March 01 1998 White Noises: On Performing White, On Writing Performance Shannon Jackson Shannon Jackson Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Shannon Jackson Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Harvard University. Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 1998 New York University and the Massachusetts …
Miscast
THERE ARE TWO museums in South Africa competing for representation and commentary on `who are the Bushmen?'. The South African Museum and the South African National Gallery, situated across from each other in Cape Town's Company Gardens, combine efforts to concretise a debate regarding how the indigenous categories, `Bushman' and `Khoisan' (1), can be publicly represented. The two museums draw together different and changing historical relationsh…
Unmaking Mimesis
Reviewed by: Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre Shannon Jackson Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre. By Elin Diamond. London and New York: Routledge, 1998; pp. 226. $75.00 cloth, $19.99 paper. With the publication of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre, Elin Diamond affirms her international reputation as one of the most important feminist theorists of Western theatre. Synthesizing and extending several of …
Professing Performance, Disciplinary Genealogies
A century ago there were no university “theatre departments.” Jack-son digs into the archives to recount the story of how some “white academic American men” figured prominently in the academic insti-tutionalization of “performance.”
Tourism in Performance
Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display From Waikiki to Sea World. By Jane C. Desmond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 336 pages. $30.00 (cloth). $15.00 (paper). "The genesis of this book," writes Jane Desmond, "came from a sense of shock" (xiii). Indeed, the tourist experience can be quite a shocker--perhaps more disturbingly so when its conventions of display and appropriation pass unnoticed. In her book, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Displ…
Language in Cape Town's District Six
1. Introduction 2. A history of language contact in the Cape Town area 3. Perceptions of District Six: the place and its people 4. Field work in the focal neighbourhood 5. The Chapel Street neighbourhood and its codes 6. Code choices in the family, the neighbourhood, the workplace 7. Language in the schools 8. Bilingual dialogue 9. Conclusion
Then I Was Black
Partial publicity and gendered remembering
This essay brings representational issues of female publicity into recent discussions about space, community and memory. Cultural analysts in a variety of fields have used these concepts to foreground the radically contextual and socially embedded nature of artistic production as well as to incorporate psychic and material notions of representation into the analysis of the political. I argue that such conceptual work is implicitly gendered, somet…
Performing Show and Tell
This article analyzes parallels and discontinuities between performance studies and visual culture studies, arguing that a comparison between the two newer fields provides a way of foregrounding the stakes faced in their shared consolidation. It considers the ways that the turn from art history to visual culture studies parallels a turn from theater studies to performance studies. However, it also shows places where the parallels break down, espe…
Cape Colonial Architecture, Town Planning, and the Crafting of Moden Space in South Africa
Architecture and the built environment in Cape Town provide clues and insight into the spatial models that inform continuities and contradictions in the structuring of rules regulating contact and conduct in urban dwellers' daily routines. This paper explores the transition from classical to modernist space in colonial and postcolonial Cape Town to address some of the tensions informing the use of race and gender distinctions to obscure the relat…
Caravans Continued
The heterogeneity of the memorial gathering for the late Dwight Conquergood reveals the disciplinary legacies of what is sometimes erroneously called the “Northwestern” strain of performance studies in the United States—which Conquergood was key in developing
Caravans Continued
The City from Thirty Thousand Feet
The City from Thirty Thousand FeetEmbodiment, Creativity, and the Use of Geographic Information Systems as Urban Planning Tools Shannon Jackson (bio) For some time, and in ever increasing numbers, governments and other kinds of organizations involved in urban planning have been using a multifaceted computer application known as a geographic information system (GIS). A GIS is, essentially, a software tool that stores, manipulates, and displays dat…
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
Professing Performance
Concentrating creativity
The Technology of Policing
Commentary
Despite a common concern for social change, the multidisciplinary fields of city planning and performance studies rely on different theories, epistemologies, and language. We argue that these fields share common roots and would benefit from integrating their approaches.We use three issues in community arts, along with a case study from Oakland, California, as a lens into this new joint epistemology. The first is the concern over arts as instrumen…
Social Works
No Dig, No Fly, No Go
Reviewed by: No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control Shannon Jackson (bio) No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control. By Mark Monmonier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. vi+242. $18. No Dig, No Fly, No Go is the latest installation of a larger series by Mark Monmonier addressing the history and social significance of maps. He describes it as an extension of his more foundational and, likely, more familiar [E…
Technology, Bodily Limits, and Ways of Knowing
This analysis of Joy Parr's Sensing Changes (2010) connects the central themes of her historical and ethnographic accounts of megaprojects in Canada to broader arguments about the relationship between historically situated bodies and technologies. Much of what is being traced in her case studies is a very local reckoning of how bodies create, employ, and transmit expertise about landscape, be it natural or cultural or both. Her emphasis on the lo…
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