Room Number: TRS 1-073
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Chair: Kristine Kelly (Case Western Reserve U)
Speakers:
Miki Flockeman (U Western Cape), “Disruptive mournings: Commemorative Performances of the Marikana Massacre as Affective Critique of a Nation in Crisis”
Shubhanku Kochar (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha U), “Good Fences make Good Neighbours: Critiquing the Idea of Enclosures with reference to Robinson Crusoe and Foe”
Alero Uwawah Agbonkonkon-Ogbeide & Sam Erevbenagie Usadolo (Durban U Technology), “Our Universe, Our Common: Preserving ‘Us’ Through the Theatre”
Paper Summaries:
Miki Flockeman (U Western Cape), “Disruptive mournings: Commemorative Performances of the Marikana Massacre as Affective Critique of a Nation in Crisis”
In tracking performative commemorations of the Marikana Massacre in 2012 when South African police killed 34 striking miners (and fellow citizens), I show how these performances open up a form of affective critique which pushes through and ruptures other public discourses attempting to ‘explain’ how and why the event happened.
Shubhanku Kochar (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha U), “Good Fences make Good Neighbours: Critiquing the Idea of Enclosures with reference to Robinson Crusoe and Foe”
The paper examines the concept of closed spaces verses open and public spaces with reference to Robinson Crusoe and Foe. The paper highlights how land use explicates one’s belief system with reference to one’s environment and how it creates binaries of white and non-white, man and women, man and environment.
Alero Uwawah Agbonkonkon-Ogbeide & Sam Erevbenagie Usadolo (Durban U Technology), “Our Universe, Our Common: Preserving ‘Us’ Through the Theatre”
The theatre remains a potent development tool. The magnitude of its essence finds relevance when it is especially applied in community development and is democratised in such a manner as to require the input of everyone involved in the process. We contend in this paper that where collective responsibility is adequately encouraged and manifested, theatre reflects sustainable development.