Mobilising the global significance of multidisciplinary discourses of performativity: lessons from an Australian major league baseballer in the United States and Australian circus performers
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Paper/Presentation Title | Mobilising the global significance of multidisciplinary discourses of performativity: lessons from an Australian major league baseballer in the United States and Australian circus performers |
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Presentation Type | Other |
Authors | Wilson-Gahan, Susan (Author), Mason, Robert (Author) and Danaher, P. A. (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | CADAAD2014 Abstract Book |
Year | 2014 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/dokumentumok/Abstract%20Book%201%20September.pdf |
Conference/Event | Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD2014) |
Event Details | Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD2014) Event Date 01 to end of 03 Sep 2014 Event Location Budapest, Hungary |
Abstract | The discursive construction and expression of multiple forms of identities (self and other; individual, group and community; local, national and international) continue to exercise scholars across a wide range of disciplines, who in turn sometimes seek to exorcise less constructive and enabling representations of certain kinds of marginalised identities. This multi-valenced character of identity discourses is illustrated starkly in the very different status and forms of capital of two occupationally mobile communities with whom this paper is concerned. One group is the highly successful internationally mobile major league baseball players – specifically in this case an Australian player who spent many years travelling the baseball circuits in the United States. The other group is the circuses who travel from place to place in Australia providing public entertainment based on equally specialised skill sets. The paper presents a critically engaged and theoretically informed discourse analysis of empirical data collected with the two groups. The analysis is framed by selected aspects of Judith Butler’s notion of performativity, augmented with more recent theorisation in the field |
Keywords | occupationally mobile communities; major league baseball players; circus performers; global significance |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 479999. Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified |
399999. Other education not elsewhere classified | |
430303. Biography | |
Public Notes | Only the Abstract, as supplied here, was published in the Conference Proceedings. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
School of Arts and Communication | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3016/mobilising-the-global-significance-of-multidisciplinary-discourses-of-performativity-lessons-from-an-australian-major-league-baseballer-in-the-united-states-and-australian-circus-performers
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