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Performativity and Belonging

An Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID2354176
AuthorsVikki Bell (0000-0003-3663-1798, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume16
Issue2
Pages1-10
Publication date1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02632769922050511
OpenAlexW2054871028
LanguageEN
Citations received150
References cited3

This short piece introduces the Special Issue, giving both a general sense of the terms 'belonging' and 'performativity', and discussing key related concepts that unite the articles of the issue: difference and their differences; the politics of visuality; embodiment; and the idea of routes. The predominant themes as they appear in the different articles are discussed under these headings

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Key (lock · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Theatre and Performance Studies

  • Contours in Reflexivity

    Open Access•Tim May•Methodological Innovations Online•2010

  • Bodily Offerings of Belonging

    Sin Wen Lau•Canberra Anthropology•2007

  • No Place Like Home; or, Dwelling in Narrative

    Laura Bieger•New Literary History•2015

  • Performativity, Faith and Professional Identity

    Hazel Bryan, Lynn Revell•British Journal of Educational…•2011

  • Performative belonging and embodied meaning-making in Africa–China encounters

    Open Access•Ignatius G D Suglo•Text and Performance Quarterly•2026

  • Population, Mobility and Belonging

    R Cover•Population, Mobility and Belonging•2019

  • The Spirit Of Water

    Open Access•Magda Minguzzi•The Spirit Of Water•2021

  • Narrating lives in (e)motion

    Open Access•Anastasia Christou•Emotion, space and society•2011

  • Gender and the City

    Open Access•Tovi Fenster•A Companion to Feminist Geography•2005

  • (Dis)Connections

    Open Access•Katerina Hatzikidi, Rami Salameh•Middle East Critique•2026

  • Crossing Borders of Different Kinds

    Michaela Grobbel•Journal of Austrian Studies•2015

  • A sense of belonging to the neighbourhood in places beyond the metropolis – the role of social infrastructure

    Open Access•P Dirksmeier•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2025

  • (Non-)Belonging as Musical Force after Displacement

    Open Access•Anja Brunner•Filigrane•2025

  • Campus Green Spaces Matter

    Open Access•Jennifer M Pipitone, Brooke Frierson et al.•Journal of Experiential Education•2026

  • A study of student teachers’ experiences of belonging on teaching practice

    Open Access•David H Johnston, Yvonne Dewhurst•International Journal of…•2021

  • Exploration of My Aboriginal Heritage

    Open Access•Emily Darnett, Paul Rhodes•Human Arenas•2023

  • Espacios de pertenencia juvenil en contextos de desventaja

    Open Access•María Cristina Bayón, Gonzalo A Saraví•Última Década•2022

  • Immigrating into the Occupation

    Open Access•Inna Michaeli•Feminist Review•2018

  • Place-making and Place Maintenance

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson•Sociology•2013

  • Homeland Beauty

    Open Access•Louisa Schein•The Journal of Asian Studies•2004

  • Making Sense of Belonging

    Open Access•Merve Tunçer•Nordic Journal of Migration…•2023

  • To write/to revolt

    Sherine Fouad Mazloum•Journal for Cultural Research•2015

  • Muslim Belonging in Hindu South Asia

    Open Access•Megan Adamson Sijapati•Society and Culture in South Asia•2017

  • Waiting for the disappeared

    Open Access•Özgür Sevgi Göral•Social Anthropology•2021

  • Suspended ethics and the team

    Open Access•R Cover•Sexualities•2013

  • The value of culturedness

    Open Access•Lejla Voloder, P Andits•The Australian Journal of…•2016

  • Language and Negotiation of Identities Among Young Kurds in Finland

    Open Access•Mari Toivanen•Nordic Journal of Migration…•2013

  • But the empress has no clothes

    Open Access•Liz Stanley, Sue Wise•Feminist Theory•2000

  • ‘They won’t let us play … unless you’re going out with one of them’

    E Renold•British Journal of Sociology of…•2006

  • "I Can't Get Sexual Genders Straight"

    Open Access•Annette Schlichter•Postmodern Culture•2007

  • Reading Cultural Studies, Reading Foucault

    Open Access•R Khan•Postmodern Culture•2004

  • Utopian community football? Sport, hope and belongingness in the lives of refugees and asylum seekers

    Clive Stone, Chris Stone•Leisure Studies•2018

  • An ethnological approach to Sister Nations’ verse

    Open Access•Carmen Sancho Guinda•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2008

  • Urban Nature and Sense of Belonging

    Open Access•Jennifer M Pipitone, Svetlana Jović•Ecopsychology•2022

  • Inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth

    Open Access•Christy E Newman, Sujith Kumar Prankumar et al.•Critical Public Health•2020

  • The myth of LGBTQ mobilities

    R Cover, Peter Aggleton et al.•Culture Health & Sexuality•2020

  • The Representation of Roma in the Romanian Media During Covid-19

    Open Access•Ionut Chiruta•Frontiers in Political Science•2021

  • I Always Wanted to Look at Another Human and Say I Can See That Human in Me”

    Open Access•Ravinder Barn, Nushra Mansuri•Genealogy•2019

  • A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

    Open Access•Eva Youkhana•Social Inclusion•2015

  • Transitory and Dispositional Facets of Ethnic Identity in Latinx Adolescents

    Open Access•Liliana R Goldín, James Jaccard•Journal of the Society for Social…•2020

  • Space Invaders in Engineering

    Andrea Vera-Gajardo, Consuelo Dinamarca•Engineering Studies•2025

  • Transcultural body spaces

    Benedetta Morsiani•African and Black Diaspora An…•2018

  • Politics, Social Movements, and the Body

    Open Access•Randolph Hohle•Sociology Compass•2010

  • Framing the migration

    Open Access•Keith Greenwood, Tony Thomson•International Communication Gazette•2019

  • Sights of sites

    Emma Waterton•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2009

  • British Expatriate Belongings

    Katie Walsh•Home Cultures•2006

  • The Collective Turkish Home in Vienna

    Özlem Savaş•Home Cultures•2010

  • Formations of belonging in Australia

    Open Access•H Cuervo, Julia Cook•Population Space and Place•2018

  • Intergenerational Experiences of Belonging and Place‐Attachment Amid Environmental Challenges in Regional Australia

    Open Access•Julia Cook, Tamara Young et al.•Population Space and Place•2025

  • Routinized performances of belonging

    Open Access•Julia Cook, H Cuervo•Population Space and Place•2022

  • Translocal space across migrant generations

    Open Access•Gina Kallis, Richard Yarwood et al.•Population Space and Place•2018

  • Accessibility and diversity

    Open Access•Per Koren Solvang, Hilde Haualand•Scandinavian Journal of…•2013

  • A Joyful Act of Worship

    Lisa Peschel, L A Peschel•Holocaust and Genocide Studies•2012

  • Burial and Belonging

    Open Access•Osman Balkan•Studies in Ethnicity and…•2015

  • Shame and Pride in How to Look Good Naked

    H Frith, J Raisborough et al.•Feminist Media Studies•2012

  • Transcultural football. Trajectories of belonging among immigrant youth

    M Mauro•Soccer and Society•2015

  • The Star’s Image, Victimization and Celebrity Culture

    Open Access•Ruth Penfold•Punishment & Society•2004

  • We all just want a flag to get behind’

    Tabitha A Baker•National Identities•2023

  • The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the performativity of sport nationalism

    Tzu-Hsuan Chen, Ying Chiang•National Identities•2023

  • Establishing roots at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport Garden

    Elliott N Weiss, Elliott Weiss•National Identities•2010

  • Unspeakable Bodies

    Open Access•Debra Ferreday•International Journal of Cultural…•2003

  • It makes me feel at home’

    Mette Lykke Nielsen, Mette Toft Rønberg et al.•Journal of Youth Studies•2022

  • Crafting a business Umma ? transnational networks of ‘Islamic businessmen’ after the Arab Spring

    Marie Vannetzel, Dilek Yankaya•Mediterranean Politics•2017

  • Cosplay”

    Osmud Rahman, Wing‐sun Liu et al.•Fashion Theory•2012

  • A ‘Performative’ Social Movement

    Quintin Bradley•Space and Polity•2012

  • Narrative Accounts of Origins

    Open Access•Baukje Prins•European Journal of Women s Studies•2006

  • Stepmothers’ constructions and negotiations of belonging

    Minna Murtorinne-Lahtinen, Kimmo Jokinen•Journal of Family Studies•2017

  • Rendre visible l'activisme des femmes migrantes

    Umut Erel•Cahiers du Genre•2011

  • (In)visible spaces

    Ankita Chatterjee, Sutanuka Banerjee•Asian Journal of Women s Studies•2023

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Belonging

    Open Access•H Cuervo, J Wyn•Young•2017

  • Remembering Places Never Visited

    Open Access•Lynette Russell•International Journal of…•2012

  • Children's Experience and Practice of Belonging

    Charlie Rumsby•positions asia critique•2022

  • The Ethical Foundation of Performativity

    Belinda Morrissey•Social Semiotics•2005

  • Foreign places, hybrid spaces

    N Ng•Continuum•2011

  • Vulnerability and the discourse of ‘forgotten people’

    R Cover•Continuum•2020

  • Family as a eudaimonic bubble

    Open Access•Elina Meliou•Gender Work and Organization•2019

  • Belonging’ and ‘Otherness’

    Open Access•Mustafa F Özbilgin, Diana Woodward•Gender Work and Organization•2004

  • My first Little Black Dress

    Open Access•Rafia Faiz•Gender Work and Organization•2023

  • Performing identity

    Open Access•Christine Agius•Security Dialogue•2013

  • Borders and belongings in Nordic feminisms and beyond

    Mia Liinason•Gender Place & Culture•2018

  • Performing Legal and National Identities

    Open Access•Anne Macduff•Social & Legal Studies•2022

  • I don’t feel like I belong’

    Open Access•Sarah Mcdonald•Gender and Education•2024

  • Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment

    Open Access•José Javier Callejo-González, Jesús Antonio Ruiz Herrero et al.•Journal of Rural Studies•2024

  • Sonic geography, place and race in the formation of local identity

    Philip Boland•Geografiska Annaler Series B…•2010

  • Remodeling Britney Spears

    Stan Hawkins, Jill Eileen Richardson et al.•Popular Music & Society•2007

  • The politics of belonging in Alcoholics Anonymous

    Open Access•Hannah Sally Glassman, M L Moensted et al.•American Journal of Community…•2022

  • Finno-Ugric Identity in Estonia

    Open Access•Andrey Makarychev, George Spencer Terry et al.•Nationalities Papers•2024

  • Tangential attachments

    Open Access•Sophie Yarker•Urban Studies•2018

  • Normative Masculinity and the Decoration of the Tepidarium of the Forum Baths in Pompeii

    Ville Hakanen•American Journal of Archaeology•2020

  • Performing Belonging, Celebrating Invisibility

    Open Access•Kristine Juul•Nordic Journal of Migration…•2014

  • Dad says I'm tied to a shooting star!’ Grounding (research on) British expatriate belonging

    Open Access•Katie Walsh•Area•2006

  • Walking Sociologically, Teaching on the Move

    Open Access•Emma Jackson, Emma L Jackson•Sociology•2026

  • Agency, Anticipation and Indeterminacy in Feminist Theory

    Open Access•Lois Mcnay•Feminist Theory•2003

  • More-than-human, emergent belongings

    Open Access•Sarah E Wright, Sarah Wright•Progress in Human Geography•2014

  • Whitely scripts' and Irish women's racialized belonging(s) in England

    Open Access•Barbara Gray, Breda Gray•European Journal of Cultural…•2002

  • Performances and Constitutions of Natures

    Open Access•David Crouch•The Sociological Review•2003

  • Exploring the Demands of Assimilation among White Ethnic Majorities in Western Europe

    Marco Antonsich•New Community•2012

  • Civility and its discontents

    Anru Lee•Mobilities•2021

  • Under the cover of the kippah

    Open Access•Assaf Harel•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2019

  • The cool welcome and the responses to it

    P Andits•Identities•2017

  • Michel Foucault, philosopher

    Timothy J Armstrong•Michel Foucault, philosopher•1992

  • Black Skin, White Masks

    Frantz Fanon•Social Theory Re-Wired•2023

  • Outside Belongings

    E Probyn•Outside Belongings•2015

Unique citing works150
Citations per year5,77
Citation span2000 - 2026 (27)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedYes
Citation typesNeutral: 145

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