Chile’s public conservation estate has expanded by unprecedented margins in recent years, following the creation of several mega projects. One such project is the Route of Parks of Chilean Patagonia, ...a public–private partnership to protect nearly 30 million acres of land across 18 national parks at the bottom of the South American continent. The partnership, over two decades in the making, was proposed by the U.S-based philanthropic foundation Tompkins Conservation but rejected by previous presidential administrations before finally being accepted in 2017. This article traces the role of two complementary forces behind the project – big philanthropy and big conservation – showing how both shaped the state’s eventual decision to take historic action for environmental protection. I argue that resource spectacle is key to understanding the ‘how’ and ‘why now’ of this mega project. Whereas traditional resource spectacles are conjured to court buy-in from private actors for extractive projects, a conservation resource spectacle is conjured in this case to court buy-in from the state for a large-scale national parks project. Big philanthropy emphasizes the spectacular investability of national parks by selling them as “a cold, hard asset,” akin to Chile’s other natural resources. It does this by rendering the value of protected nature legible and consumable through the same resource-making techniques that define extractivism. Yet, these resource-making techniques when applied to environmental protection not only establish perverse incentives for action, they also help fuel the convergence of conservation and extraction.
Spectacle, once a key term for critical theories, has had limited theoretical development in recent decades. To make sure the concept remains relevant today, this paper turns to actor-network theory ...(ANT) and assemblage theories to reconceptualize what the spectacle is and how it operates today. Working with a case study of a controversial urban spectacle in southern Chile – a new shopping mall, the “Mall Paseo Chiloé” – this paper explores a set of findings that illustrate what these approaches have to offer. First, in viewing the spectacle as a hybrid entity, we uncover vital forces inside what might at first appear to be irrelevant features of the building's architectural design. At the same time, this approach includes the forces of ambivalent desire and fluidity that reveal the dynamics of resistance inside that same design. As such, this paper focuses on a specific aspect of this building that makes it a unique form of counter-spectacle.
•Inclusive female anti-poaching (IFAP) is increasingly gaining attention.•IFAP environmental spectacles in southern Africa showcase heroic female rangers.•The spectacles contain ambiguities regarding ...gender, race and green militarization.•Spectacularisation attracts funding, but neglects significant context.•IFAP spectacles are based on invisible (i.e. symbolic and systemic) violence.
Staged ‘spectacles’ are increasingly becoming important in communicating potential solutions for environmental challenges such as poaching. In this paper, we explore the spectacle of ‘inclusive female anti-poaching’ (IFAP) through an analysis of the Akashinga and Black Mamba projects in Zimbabwe and South Africa respectively. Both IFAP initiatives emphasize the inclusion of local women in anti-poaching. Such projects gain increasing public attention but have thus far hardly been studied academically. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and critical discourse analysis, we unpack the IFAP spectacle’s three core pillars: first, their claim to break gender stereotypes and the intersection with race; second, the portrayal of female rangers as heroines in relation to their socio-economic status and their political-economic and historical contexts; and third, the projects’ responses to increasing green militarization and their often ambiguous relation with ‘demilitarization’. We argue that the staged IFAP spectacle is for a large part based on invisible or objective (i.e. symbolic and systemic) violence and its claims to break gender barriers and support demilitarization are ambiguous and not fully convincing. It seems as if an important driver of these claims is to render IFAP more attractive for funding.
In this era, celebrities are shaped and disseminated by the media. Media generates celebrities. When someone become the most popular person in the news then he/she would instantly become a celebrity. ...One of the figures that always make an interesting spectacle is Jokowi. As a presidential candidate of PDI Perjuangan, Jokowi have all aspects to be an interesting spectacle because of his construction of self-image that is different from the self-image of other president in Indonesia. As a media darling, Jokowi makes a Jokowi Spectacle. It becomes much more interesting when Jokowi Spectacle is compared with its successor, Obama Spectacle.
Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the ...popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the "carnivalesque" and the "dialogic," at the same time suggesting Bakhtin's usefulness in understanding Chaucer.
This book includes chapters on how Chaucer adopts the voice of such popular literary forms as chronicles and pious collections, on his equivalence between his own image making and dramatic performance, and on Chaucer's and Boccaccio's handling of the related issues of popular understanding and the creation of illusions. The book concludes by describing how Chaucer conflates "noise" and popular expression, simultaneously appropriating and distancing himself from his richest cultural context.
Originally published in 1990.
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Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel
troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century,
popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from
Britain ...to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally
landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first
popular culture export of the United States, minstrel shows
frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens who were unfit
for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of
a global color line. Chinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy
and performance culture into the discussion of apartheid's
nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive
of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs
and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. Exporting Jim
Crow highlights blackface minstrelsy's cultural and social
impact as it became a dominant form of entertainment, moving from
its initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling
twentieth-century resurgence on movie screens and at public events.
This carefully researched and highly original study demonstrates
that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently
political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial
identity.
In this article, the authors theorize the communicative logic of ISIS online death videos-from the burning and shooting of individual hostages to mass battleground executions. Drawing on Adriana ...Cavarero's reflections on contemporary violence, they demonstrate how ISIS' digital spectacles of the annihilated body confront Western viewers with horror- or rather with different "regimes of horrorism" (grotesque, abject and sublime horror). These spectacles of horror, the authors argue, mix Western with Islamic aesthetic practices and secular with religious moral claims so as to challenge dominant hierarchies of grievability (who is worthy of our grief) and norms of subjectivity. In so doing, the authors conclude, ISIS introduces into global spaces of publicity a "spectacular thanatopolitics"-a novel form of thanatopolitics that brings the spectacle of the savaged body, banished from display since the 19th century, back to the public stage, thereby turning the pursuit of death into the new norm of heroic subjectivity.
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