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SUMMARY:Performing the Public Sphere - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20141006T160000Z
DTEND:20141006T180000Z
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CONTACT:Jonas Tinius
DESCRIPTION:How do groups – both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic - imagi
 ne and perform themselves politically? \n\nHow is a public sphere already 
 implied by artistic activity?\n\nDr Anastasia Piliavsky (Social Anthropolo
 gy\, Cambridge/UCL)\nDr Rafael Schacter (BA Postdoctoral Fellow)\n\nChair:
  Dr David Madden (Sociology/Cities Programme\, LSE)\n\n---\nDr Anastasia P
 iliavsky attempts to locate ‘the political’ as that which is outside t
 he given legal and conventional frame of state-directed politics. Her work
  on corruption\, petty crime and the informal economy in India has led her
  to form a concept of ‘actually existing politics’. She is editor of P
 atronage as Politics in South Asia (CUP\, 2014) and currently involved in 
 an ESRC-funded project on democratic cultures in Bangladesh\, India\, and 
 Pakistan.\n\nDr Rafael Schacter is an anthropologist\, curator\, and autho
 r who has undertaken research on graffiti and street-art for nearly a deca
 de. He recently founded an arts production company and is author of The Wo
 rld Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti (Yale\, 2013) and Ornament & Order: G
 raffiti\, Street Art and the Parergon (Ashgate\, 2014). \n\nDr David Madde
 n is Assistant Professor in Sociology and teaches in the Cities Programme.
  He works on urban studies\, political sociology and social theory. He has
  conducted qualitative\, ethnographic and historical research in New York 
 City\, London and elsewhere\, addressing topics including urban politics\,
  gentrification\, cultural development\, public housing\, public space\, u
 rban theory and planetary urbanisation. David has previously taught at Col
 umbia University\, New York University and Bard College. He holds a PhD fr
 om Columbia University and is a member of the editorial board of the journ
 al CITY. \n\nOpen to all. No registration required\n\nPart of the Cambridg
 e Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN)\, series\n\nhttp://www.cras
 sh.cam.ac.uk/events/25810
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar room SG2\, Ground floor  
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