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Fear of folk: Why folk art and ritual horrifies in Britain
Authors: Galea Alexa
Published: May 2014

This article examines the role of folk art and ritual in British design and popular culture as a horrific and subversive force. Whilst British folk tradition has been championed by the artists and writers Barbara Jones, Margaret Lambert and Enid Marx, and recent revived interest means it remains an enduring and popular inspiration across design disciplines, its deployment to intimidate and the occurrence of horrific narratives and depictions of folk art and ritual remain unaccounted for. In view of Raymond Williams’s text ‘Dominant, Residual, Emergent’ and Antonio Gramsci’s ‘Observations on Folklore’, British folk tradition can be identified as a residual culture, which dominant culture attempts to incorporate as a ‘leisure function’ of itself through reinterpretation and dilution – demonstrated by the shift in common meaning of the maypole. Folk art and ritual such as hair work that threatens the predominant image of an idyllized and frivolous folk culture is marginalized, or othered to the extremity of the horror story. The horrific rendering of British folk traditions in The Wicker Man speaks of an anxiety of their affirmations – that mankind is subject to the sublime chaos of nature and that society and nature are entwined. Folk art and ritual occupies a dual position in British culture and although residual, in its adaptation by the artist or designer it evolves continuously and is bound up with the dominant culture it permeates.
‘A live film’? Failing to notice television
Authors: Mills Brett
Published: May 2014

Why does so much television go unnoticed? This article examines the coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games to show how some media forms – especially film and music – are a part of everyday debates about culture, whereas television is not. The Opening
Ceremony was often about television, and was consumed by billions via television – yet reviews and commentaries about the event rarely mention television at all. This article shows that those involved in the Ceremony who have worked successfully in television – such as Danny Boyle
and Rowan Atkinson – are similarly commonly understood via their work in other media. The article calls for those in Television Studies to be more vocal about the work the field does, in order to combat such erasing of television found in Danny Boyle’s description of the Opening
Ceremony not as television, but as ‘live film’.
The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony: History answers back
Authors: Biressi Anita , Nunn Heather
Published: May 2014

This article highlights the distinctive turn in public discourse towards historical resources, analogies and stories to help citizens make sense of the current era of austerity through a selective analysis of the media coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games. It argues that in straitened
times British citizens are being asked to make do, to accept the rolling back of state provision and to modify their expectations of a civil society on the basis of historical myths as well as current realities. Having noted this, the article asks where on television are the counter-discourses
that may also wish to lay a claim to a national history and to tell national stories and even to contest the dismantling of the welfare state? How might these spaces work to resist the prevalent criticism of public services, organized labour and popular protest and to defend the class (and
other) politics and values with which these have been historically associated? In answer to these questions this article offers a brief consideration of the ways in which the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony deployed history and historical reference.
The #NBCFail Olympics: Access, liveness and the public interest
Authors: McNutt Myles
Published: May 2014

This article explores the deeper meanings within social media criticism of NBC’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games, focusing on the divide between those social media users and what NBC perceives as their audience for primetime, tape-delayed broadcasts. While viewer frustration
has been dismissed as a selfish desire for instant gratification in an era of conspicuous consumption, it also demonstrates the complicated relationship between NBC’s broadcasting strategies and liveness, which creates concerns over access. Similarly, although viewer frustration has
been positioned in opposition to the economic imperative of commercial broadcasting, it seems necessary to engage with the notion of the public interest in the light of NBC’s broadcast history and the nationalized appeal of the Olympic Games. In their rush to characterize #NBCFail as
evidence of Twitter’s mob mentality, analysts fail to ask what this backlash might mean for the Olympics’ place within the larger spectrum of broadcast programming in the post-network era, and for NBC’s responsibility to viewers when it comes to this global event (and broadcasting
in general).
Television, nation and the Olympic universe
Authors: Rowe David
Published: May 2014

There is a continuing tension in the modern Olympics between the universalist humanism inscribed within the Olympic Charter and the competitive nationalism that is foregrounded in its media coverage. Television, as the most important medium within the ‘media sports cultural complex’,
is particularly dependent on generating and sustaining audiences through the active stimulation of nationalism which, not uncommonly, manifests as national chauvinism. The high cost of Olympic broadcast rights tends to encourage a pronounced focus on identification with nation in pursuit of
audience maximization, with profound consequences for programming decisions concerning which Olympic sports are covered, when events are shown and how they are represented. The BBC’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games reveals that, even in the case of public service broadcasters
who are not reliant on advertising income, the ‘national public’ mainly takes precedence over universalist Olympism. This article addresses the political economy of television in the Olympics in the context of public discussion about the coverage of London 2012 by the commercial
Nine Network in Australia and the public BBC in the United Kingdom. It is accompanied by brief critical autoethnographic reflections of an Australia-based British expatriate watching the host broadcaster’s much-lauded ‘red button’ Olympics.
Clare Balding: The televisual face of London 2012
Authors: Woods Faye
Published: May 2014

This piece discusses the performance of television presenter Claire Balding during her coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics of London 2012. It suggests that her success with viewers was connected with her persona as a television personality, which combined professional skill with
intimacy and immediacy. It argues that Balding represented the face of contemporary public service broadcasting – one that bridges both the BBC and Channel 4’s brand identities – through her research and authority, combined with interaction with her through social media.
Finding ‘public purpose’ in ‘subtitled oddities’: Framing BBC Four’s Danish imports as public service broadcasting
Authors: Ward Sam
Published: May 2014

This article looks at the success of Danish drama imports on BBC Four from the specific perspective of public service broadcasting’s definition in the globalized era. It argues that the presentation of the service offered by BBC Four to the national audience has come to be significantly inflected by its importation strategy in such a way that openly co-opts, rather than resists or obscures, cross-border flows. While the BBC faces budgetary cuts and a statutory obligation to avoid bidding wars for imported content, their Danish equivalent Danmarks Radio (DR) offers a source of affordable and consistent drama. The article looks first at the institutional and economic characteristics of DR to show how these imports are formed with both the international market and public service intentions as central concerns. It then demonstrates, by drawing on interviews with BBC acquisitions personnel and press coverage, how these imports have been framed in such a way that ensures their integration with the explicit ‘public purpose’ of BBC Four’s remit.
Review Essay
Authors: Hills Matt
Published: May 2014

The Name of the Scholar

The Humanism of Doctor Who: A Critical Study in Science Fiction and Philosophy, David Layton (2012) Jefferson: McFarland, 364 pp. ISBN: 9780786466733, p/bk, $40

The Doctor’s Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who, Graham Sleight (2012) London: I.B. Tauris, 256pp, ISBN: 9781848851788, p/bk, £12.99
Dressed in irony: Advertising critique and the imagined consumer on The Gruen Transfer
Authors: Brodmerkel Sven
Published: May 2014

Todd Sampson, regular panellist on the popular ABC TV show The Gruen Transfer and CEO of the Australian branch of the advertising agency Leo Burnett, has become a media celebrity in Australia. Famous for his seemingly critical stance towards some of the advertising industry’s practices, as well as his trademark irreverent T-shirts, he appears to present the archetype of an ‘enlightened’ advertiser. The popularity of both Sampson and The Gruen Transfer also reflects a renewed interest of popular culture in the workings and culture of the advertising industry. This article takes Sampson’s performance on The Gruen Transfer and its various spin-offs as an illustrative case to analyse how a high-ranking advertising professional imagines and conceptualizes consumers on a popular TV show that claims to explain how advertising works on audiences. It argues that Sampson’s popularity can be understood by the way he reflects, alludes to and shapes three central discourses characterizing contemporary consumer culture: ironic enjoyment, branded activism and self-branding. Despite The Gruen Transfer’s apparent mission to immunize consumers against questionable advertising techniques, these discourses instead serve to immunize the advertising industry against any serious critique.
Gangstagrass: Hybridity and popular culture in Justified
Authors: Crossley Laura
Published: May 2014

This article looks at the role of two of the most iconic figures in American popular culture: the gangster and the westerner. Drawing on genre theory from film and television, the way in which the westerner has been displaced by the gangster as the most common signifier of American identity is explored, focussing specifically on the television series Justified (2010-). The southern location of the series further complicates the set of referents by mobilizing aspects of Southern Gothic. While the western and the gangster film have often been viewed as oppositional in terms of location, era and their respective musings on and articulation of American identity, this article argues that the hybridity of genres in popular culture opens up a wider space in which to address aspects of myth, history and social concerns.
Here comes a lot of judgment: Honey Boo Boo as a site of reclamation and resistance
Authors: Friedman May
Published: May 2014

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (2012-) is a gleeful spectacle of a show, filled with fat bellies, loud bodies, messy food and laughter. As much parody as ‘reality’ TV, the show profiles a southern US family as emblematic ‘rednecks’ and invites viewers to watch, laugh and judge. Yet in the depths of this heavily mediated version of southern American family life, there are strong messages about bodies, about class and about motherhood, and the ways that in transgressing dominant discourses, Honey Boo Boo unwittingly moves beyond farce and instead presents a strong critique of normativity. This article seeks to expose the dominant tropes of the show, especially in relation to three areas: class, fat, and maternity. In exposing the messaging of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the ways that the show’s narrative both maintains and resists dominant discourses, the show can be seen as an example of resistance and reclamation. Drawing on analyses of white trash culture and presentations of fat bodies, as well as the emergent field of freak studies, the article positions Here Comes Honey Boo Boo within a broader analysis of reality TV that suggests a new phase in our consumption of difference and the fluid and disruptive boundaries of the ‘normal’.
Unpicking the musical city: On Adam Krims’s Music and Urban Geography
Authors: Beer David
Published: May 2014

This essay reflects on Adam Krims’s Music and Urban Geography. The importance of this particular book, it is suggested here, is that it provides a deeply integrated analysis of the often overlooked interconnections between music and urban spaces. This essay looks across the arguments made in Music and Urban Geography and attempts to outline the key aspects of Krims’s approach and of the form of analysis that he explores. This piece argues that Krims’s book provides a model for developing sonically aware urban cultural studies. It uses Krims’s book as the basis for exploring a situated form of analysis in which the recursive relations between music and the city are understood within a set of complex and interwoven relations. As such, this piece uses Krims’s work as a guide to unpicking the musical city.
Societies of Occupy: Scenes from occupied Pittsburgh
Authors: Spencer Keith
Published: May 2014

The physical and digital fragmentation of the Occupy movement makes it notoriously difficult to define politically: in an attempt to analyse one local movement, the author performed convenience interviews with Occupy Pittsburgh participants, noting demographic information and political opinion. Through repeated interviews over several months, Occupy Pittsburgh became increasingly leftist and radical in rhetoric, even after dispersal of the physical camp. A similar trend seems to have occurred nationwide. The author opines that the organizational model of consensus may be the reason for the leftward shift in values and ideology, and ties this to observational research.
Liberty at the merry-go-round: Leisure, politics and municipal authority on the Paseo del Prado in Madrid, 1760–1939
Authors: Afinoguénova Eugenia
Published: May 2014

The article offers an overview of the leisure activities on the Prado Promenade in Madrid (Spain) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that a historical inquiry into the regulation of urban leisure is relevant for understanding the debates that the Occupy movements of 2011–12 opened up: (1) the meaning of mass public gatherings with the purpose of spending free time; and (2) the balance of power between the state, the city and commerce intertwined in the current definition of publicness. The City Council’s decisions about the methods and the scope of its control over leisure spaces such as the Prado reveal the ambiguous nature of municipal authority as a representative of the people as well as a mediator between the state and the vendors.
Richard Price’s Lower East Side: Cops, culture and gentrification
Authors: Heise Thomas
Published: May 2014

This article interrogates the dominant cultural narrative of gentrification and its deployment and resignification by Richard Price’s novel Lush Life (2008), set in the historic immigrant neighbourhood of the Lower East Side in 2002. Drawing upon theories of urban development and urban history by Neil Smith, Liz Bondi, Christopher Mele and Richard Lloyd, this article argues that Lush Life (2008) dramatizes the violent underpinnings of gentrification. At the same time, Price’s text ironizes contemporary urban redevelopment strategies that resignify and market gritty subcultural and ethnic differences as style in the service of real-estate speculation. What Price’s novel endeavours to show is that in the midst of disorienting social and physical change, urban subjects construct psychogeographies that reinforce personal and social boundaries. They gravitate towards residual signifiers of history and ethnic identification, which capitalist development itself unearths and reanimates, believing they might hold the key to establishing a stabilizing geographical rootedness at the very moment that dominant cultural and physical meanings of place are being upended.
The London 2012 Olympics: The cultural politics of urban regeneration
Authors: Silk Michael
Published: May 2014

Located within the broader urban shifts and transitions under the auspices of neo-liberal political and economic rationalities, this article holds together the mutual constitution of people/place through the London 2012 Olympic Games. Through addressing the regeneration of select pockets of the Olympic boroughs and the discursive constitution of belonging through the opening ceremony, I raise questions about who belongs, who is welcome or (dis-)connected and who constitutes the ‘active’ and ‘responsible’ (and thereby abject and ‘other’) neo-liberal citizenry within ‘productive’ places. With ‘useful’, ‘productive’ and acquiescent minorities reconstructed as citizens and moral subjects of responsible communities, conclusions centre on the tensions over civil liberties and the anticipation of risk within a multi-ethnic London and the on-going processes through which urban populations, urban spaces and citizens become bifurcated in ‘scary cities’.
Temporalizing urban space: The making of place by three Hong Kong writers
Authors: Yee Winnie L. M.
Published: May 2014

The formation of a place and community involves both a spatial definition and a coherent narrative of its historical existences. If a cohesive nation relies heavily on a unified and linear narrative of itself, then the acknowledgement of diverse and multiple temporalities would challenge and disturb that nation’s political discourse, which would, in turn, render its identity fluid and provisional. The three works discussed in this review touch upon different issues concerning Hong Kong and China. In various ways, the three writers put temporality on centre stage in order to challenge the notions of cohesive political discourse and fixed identity.
Jane Jacobs and the problem of the city
Authors: Basmajian Carlton Wade
Published: May 2014

This article reviews three recent edited volumes devoted to exploring the legacy of Jane Jacobs. Including a wide variety of voices, the topics covered in the books range from urban planning to economics to philosophy to literature. They examine the full range of Jacobs’s output, as a journalist, an activist and scholar. More than five decades after the publication of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), the volumes speak to Jacobs’s profound and lasting influence on the study of cities.
YOU PROMISED ME TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE
Authors: Kelleher Joe
Published: May 2014

The article considers a number of outdoor “unplugged” performances in relation to questions of performative intimacy and spectatorial distance. Distance is examined in relation to structures of report from far away, or with respect to the “prospect” of landscape
architecture. Intimacy is examined with regard to structures of hospitality and recent theory on ecological interdependence. The “unnatural horizons” of seventeenth-century landscape and theatrical architecture inform an argument on the place of “nature” in the imaginary
of the performances discussedČlanek obravnava vrsto »izštekanih« predstav na prostem v luči vprašanj uprizoritvene intimnosti in gledalske distance. Slednje se loti v zvezi s strukturami porocanja na daljavo in v zvezi z »razgledom« krajinske
arhitekture. Intimnost razišče z ozirom na strukture gostoljubnosti in novo teorijo ekološke medsebojne odvisnosti. »Nenaravna obzorja« krajinske in gledališke arhitekture sedemnajstega stoletja oblikujejo argument o mestu »narave« v imaginarijih
obravnavanih performansov
UP TO NATURE: THE CONTINUATION OF EGO-ECOLOGY?
Authors: Čičigoj Katja
Published: May 2014

This article aims at rethinking how the events making up two editions of the Up to Nature festival – in the woods above Vienna and Oslo – implicitly think the concept of “nature”, and hence considers whether we could think of these events as ecosophic and ethico-aesthetic
(Félix Guattari) practices. What becomes crucial here is the problem of the (non) situatedness of the festival in the concrete (“natural”) environments in which it took place (the question of mesopolitics, as Isabelle Stengers might say), as well as the question of the eventfulness
of the festival events themselvesPrispevek skuša premisliti, kako dogodki na edicijah festivala Up to Nature v gozdovih nad Dunajem in Oslom implicitno mislijo pojem »narave« ter posledično, ali jih lahko imamo za ekozofske in etično-estetske (Félix
Guattari) prakse. Pri tem postane ključen problem (ne)umeščenosti v konkretna (»naravna«) okolja, v katerih se festival odvija (vprašanje mesopolitike, kot bi nemara dejala Isabelle Stengers), s tem pa tudi vprašanje dogodkovnosti samih festivalskih
dogodkov
MYSTERIOUS POWERS INVOKED BY ENCHANTED NIGHT TRIPPER
Authors: Staudinger Judith
Published: May 2014

Choreographer Ingri Midgard Fiksdal, composer Ingvild Langgård and scenographer Signe Becker, all from Norway, produced with their performance Night Tripper a fairly serious Voodoo enchantment for total beginners. They guided their audience through the twilight of a mild summer
night in the woody hills around Vienna to a glade, where two dancers were swinging into the black of night, leaning against each other as though they were one weird creature. A small orchestra played the score for this musical performance, accompanied by a choir of young ghostsKoreografinja
Ingri Midgard Fiksdal, skladateljica Ingvild Langgård in scenografinja Signe Becker, vse tri z Norveške, so s predstavo Night Tripper ustvarile dokaj resno vudu uročenost za popolne začetnike. Občinstvo so v polmraku blage poletne noci vodile do jase sredi
gozdnatih gricev v okolici Dunaja, kjer sta se dve plesalki pozibavali v temini noči. S hrbti uprti druga ob drugo sta bili videti kot ena sama, čudna prikazen. Partituro za to glasbeno predstavo je izvajal majhen orkester, ki ga je spremljal zbor mladih duhov
ABOUT AN AUTO-BIO-GRAPHICAL APE: ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BY JOHANNA KIRSCH
Authors: Johansson Hanna
Published: May 2014

In her performance My Name is Ape or the Little Tree Theatre that took place in a birch, Austrian artist Johanna Kirsch changed position in a double sense: she used a tree as a stage scene, and played with the idea of degeneration, or, how it would be to behave like an ape. She was
also posing three important questions: how to inhabit the world, how to get along with others and how to get beyond the neve-ending performance cultureV predstavi My Name is Ape or the Little Tree Theatre (Ime mi je opica ali Mali teater na drevesu), ki se je odvijala na brezi, je avstrijska
umetnica Johanna Kirsch spremenila svoj položaj v dveh smislih: drevo je uporabila kot odrsko sceno in se hkrati poigrala z idejo o izrojenosti oziroma o tem, kako bi bilo biti opica. V njej je zastavila tri vprašanja: kako živeti v svetu, kako sobivati z drugimi in kako
preseči večno kulturo performansa
THE VERNACULAR, THE DISAPPEARED, THE REDISCOVERED AND OTHER STORIES FROM NATURE: ABOUT THE EVENTS BY FRENCHMOTTERSHEAD
Authors: Johansson Hanna
Published: May 2014

The London-based artist duo FrenchMottershead realized a series of participatory microperformances, Understories, in three Up to Nature cities. The audience took part in the performances that were about traditional local skills, many of which are destined to disappear. The stress was
put on the participatory aspect of the events as well as on the material interaction between nature and cultural activityUmetniška dvojica FrenchMottershead iz Londona je na obrobjih štirih mest, kjer se je odvijal festival Up to Nature, izvedla serijo participatornih mikroperformansov
z naslovom Understories (Podrast ali Skrivne zgodbe). V performansih, ki predstavljajo tradicionalne krajevne veščine, od katerih so številne obsojene na izumrtje, so sodelovali tudi udeleženci. Poudarek je bil na participatornosti dogodkov in stvarni interakciji
med naravo in kulturnim delovanjem
A PLACE TO KNOW WHAT’S REAL: ON NIC GREEN’S SLOWLO
Authors: Hammer Sara
Published: May 2014

Nic Green invites us into her moon-shaped dwelling for a moment to slow down, to sharpen and to unveil the wild being. Through her hour-long performance, she shares her experiences from a year living in a remote place in south-west Scotland, far away from the busyness of the city. A
place which, like the moon-shaped dwelling, should enable us to bring our surroundings into focus. The performance raises questions about self-realization and authenticity, but is most of all a reflection upon the value of changing perspectives, and of taking the time to appreciate the people
around youNic Green nas za trenutek povabi v svoj bivak v obliki meseca, da se upočasnimo, izostrimo in razkrijemo svoje divje bitje. V enourni predstavi z nami deli izkušnjo enoletnega bivanja na izoliranem kraju na jugozahodnem Škotskem, daleč od mestnega
vrveža. Na kraju, ki naj bi tako kot bivak v obliki meseca omogocil, da se osredotočimo na okolje, ki nas obdaja. Predstava sproža vprašanja o samorealizaciji in pristnosti, predvsem pa je razmišljanje o pomenu spreminjanja zornega kota in pomenu tega, da
si vzamemo čas, da cenimo ljudi okoli sebe
V-IMENU POGOVOR S SUZANO MILEVSKO O PREIMENOVANJU
Authors: Jelesijević Nenad , Milevska Suzana
Published: May 2014

This talk on the strategy of (re)naming is based on the inquirer’s notion that breaking the rules is the condition of critical artwork, understood as a form of activist intervention through arts. Disidentification, a paradigmatic emancipatory operation, could therefore potentially
be inscribed in an act of refusing the given name and inventing a new one – not only acting against the terror of identification in general, but also against art as a potentially dangerous identification toolTa pogovor o strategiji (pre)imenovanja temelji na izpraševalčevem
prepričanju, da je kršenje pravil pogoj za kritično umetniško delo, ki je pojmovano kot oblika aktivistične intervencije s pomočjo umetnosti. Tako se kaže možnost, da dezidentifikacijo, ta paradigmatski emancipacijski postopek, vnesemo
v dejanje zavrnitve danega in izumljanja novega imena – pri tem ne gre le za dejanje zoper grozljivost identifikacije na splošno, temveč tudi zoper umetnost kot potencialno nevarno orodje za identifikacijo
PUPPET THEATRE FESTIVAL LUTKE 2012 THE MASK, THE BONES AND THE MATCHES
Authors: Kopač Andreja
Published: May 2014

Since its very beginning, puppetry has been defined by a special relationship between the puppet, the puppeteer and the audience in the sense of a fluid communication triangle that transpires between the three. The 2012 Lutke Festival offered three ‘miniatures’, that is,
three performances that each construct their own special communication relationship, which both in terms of structure as well as in terms of content belongs totally to the field of performance art; they are Go! performed by Polina Borisova, Little Suicides by Gyula Molnár and adapted/performed
by Carles Canell, and Happy Bones by Matija Solce. In this article, the link with the level of performativity is fleshed out through a comparison with Pure Performance by Jaka Lah, which was conceived as part of the project Via Negativa. The text emphasizes the dual mode of viewing, which
requires a simultaneous reading of individual parts and of the whole and which (despite the exactitude of performance) is based on a special dynamic with an implicit possibility(ability) of improvisation and a constant inclusion of the spectatorLutkarstvo vse od začetkov opredeljuje
poseben odnos med lutko, lutkarjem in občinstvom v smislu pretočnega komunikacijskega trikotnika, ki poteka na tej relaciji. Festival Lutke 2012 je v letošnjem letu ponudil tri »miniaturke«, tri predstave, ki gradijo vsaka svoje posebno komunikacijsko razmerje,
ki tako po strukturi kot vsebini sega že povsem na podrocje performansa; gre za predstave Pojdi! v izvedbi Poline Borisove, Mali Samomori Gyule Molnarja ter priredbi in izvedbi Carlesa Canella in Srečne kosti Matije Solceta. Povezava z ravnjo performativnosti je v članku
izpeljana preko primerjave s Čistim performansom Jake Laha, ki je nastal v okviru projekta Via Negativa. Poudarek je dualnem načinu gledanja, ki zahteva »hkratno« branje dela in celote, in ki (kljub natančnosti izvedbe) temelji na posebni dinamiki, v katero
je implicitno vgrajena (z)možnost improvizacije in nenehno vključevanju gledalca
On Slovenian theatre: A letter from a friend
Authors: Brown Mark
Published: May 2014

Written from the perspective of both an 'enchanted friend' and a 'disappointed lover' of Slovenian theatre, this article offers a potentially controversial thesis on contemporary live drama in Slovenia. It is based upon an experience of Slovenian drama that has been intensive, rather
than extensive: the author has attended the Borštnik Theatre Festival in Maribor on two occasions; first, on a five-day visit in 2010, and, second, as a member of the jury of experts, throughout the 2012 Festival. The author expresses his appreciation of the talents he has encountered
in Slovenian theatre, especially in the stronger productions of modern classic plays. However, he also observes a preference, in new Slovenian work being produced for the national stage, for devised work, rather than scripted plays. That work, he believes, is of generally poor quality, exhibiting
tendencies towards what he terms some of the more 'postmodern', 'hollow' and 'adolescent' conventions of the contemporary avant-garde.
Mise-en-scène in search of its contemporary identity
Authors: Arhar Nika
Published: May 2014

In his book Contemporary Mise en Scène: Staging Theatre Today, Pavis appears to be a subtle and extremely passionate observer of contemporary theatre. Due to the extended spectrum of heterogeneity and eclecticism, he recognises the need to expand the view of theatre (especially
perhaps the French view). In his desire to cover the multiple natures of contemporary stage practices, he adds performance to the mise-en-scène. If Pavis's theory seems to be slightly unclear at moments or maybe even contradicting at times - which might be due to the insufficient space
given to the theoretical explanation - he distinguishes himself with his clear historic frame and the broad spectrum of contemporary performance practices that he discusses with great enthusiasm and attention to mise-en-scène endeavours.
The complex of the reception of the theatre (and) of the oppressed
Authors: Leskovšek Nika
Published: May 2014

The article focuses on the theatre technique and methodology of Augusto Boal in the difference between the theory and the application practice, in the semantic transfer from its original context to the environment of today's Slovenia.It investigates the relation between the influence
or effects of his theatre innovations on the one hand and the social commitment on the other (therapeutic, intervention, pedagogical, activist practices of theatre). Based on the diversity of the mentioned aspects, it examines the intention and the meaning of translation and other approaches
to acquaint the interested public in Slovenia of today with Augusto Boal. The article also addresses the issue of how this space implements Boal's technique (in reverse), and, last but not least, which aspects still render it revolutionary, innovative or, even better, inspiring.
Editorial
Authors: Kraigher Amelia
Published: May 2014

The present issue of Maska offers a broad range of articles; however, a good half of them - despite different scripts, different approaches to thinking and analysing and despite the diversity of the phenomena under consideration - touches upon the questions of emancipatory and even
political potentials of contemporary performing arts, their conditions and, last but not least, reflection itself.
Waking at 5 a.m.: Irrelevance and the look of the foreigner as practices of resistance in contemporary times
Authors: Theodoridou Danae
Published: May 2014

This article discusses practices that aim to resist the 'projected temporality' of contemporary times, as Bojana Kunst has described it. Resisting to prevailing contemporary conditions of thinking and working, seen merely as a series of 'projects' that continuously move 'forwards',
to what is to come, to an innovative, radical and always to-be anticipated future, this text draws on the operation of the 'foreigner' in Derrida and Dimitriadis and the notion of 'irrelevance' in Agamben, in order to offer an alternative understanding of the 'project' as an 'intention' able
to return to pasts and presents so that it stays 'together with' different times, people and places (as implied in the term 'synchronous', the corresponding term of the Latin-derived 'contemporary' in Greek), instead of anxiously struggling to control and schedule the unforeseen.
Some reflections on the relation between text, the performing body and sensations in postdramatic theatre and performance
Authors: Krpič Tomaž
Published: May 2014

The article delivers the author's reflections on relations among the text (speech and secondary), the performing body, performers and spectators in postdramatic theatre and performance, based on Erica Fischer-Lichte's model of a doubled performing body (phenomenal and semiotic). The
author elaborates a typology of performing bodily relations: divisional/semi-sensual, substitutional/fully sensual and identical auto-sensual bodily relations upon three different criteria: (1) who is the main producer of sensations, (2) how many senses are involved and (3) what is the nature
of the spatial relationship between the performers and the spectators. Three examples are given as an illustration of the above typology: Dani Ploeger's Biotope, Via Negativa's Would Would Not and Janez Janša's The Wailing Wall.
On intellectual prostitution and performative art
Authors: Puncer Mojca
Published: May 2014

This contribution is about the example of the urban artistic campaign 'Intellectual Whores', which is taking place in the framework of the 17th Performa as a part of the European Capital of Culture. It treats upon the fate of present-day intellectual labour and artistic creativity.
Against the backdrop of the identity revitalization of degraded parts of urban centres, the campaign reflects upon the relation of artistic form through an economic model. In so doing, it emphasizes antagonism and seeks alternative forms of participation and collaboration, which, instead of
being based on a non-problematic belonging to a temporary group, are based on disturbance and tension. In addition to pointing out the meaning of urban public spaces, the campaign sets up a mirror for society in which disturbance and tension are concentrated into political potential.
Changing the mode of production in the field of culture
Authors: Radojević Lidija
Published: May 2014

The text deals with the changes in the mode of production in the field of culture in post-socialist Slovenia. Using the theory of historical materialism, it tries to consider the changes within cultural production over the past two decades. Utilizing Marx's conceptualization of the formal and the real subsumption of labour under capital, it sheds light on the introduction of capitalist relations of production in this field. In particular, the text focuses on the institutional changes through which capital subsumes cultural production, and it describes the structural changes that occur when culture is thought of in terms of cultural industries.
Folding the moment - writing dance: A few sketches on recording dance through time
Authors: Kopač Andreja
Published: May 2014

The beginnings of ballet as theatrical dance coincide with the beginnings of recording movement, at first in the form of notational systems, which reach their peak at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when it is becoming increasingly evident that dance notation systematization is a utopian task. Each recording of movement proves to be a unique analytical system allowing insights both in movement representations of a certain time and at the same time in the problematic of movement as such. The recording of contemporary dance outside the ballet institution is thus defined primarily with the particularity of own (auto)biographical writing and with education and the establishment of dance schools that see to the preservation of dance languages. Both these moments are important for the development of Slovene contemporary dance; whereas the present recording of dance is entirely subjected to particular patterns of seeing and intellectualisation of the seen.
Should they stay or should they go? A discourse analysis of factors influencing relocation decisions among the outer islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati
Authors: Smith Roy
Published: May 2014

The low-lying atoll states of Tuvalu and Kiribati have gained international attention due to their vulnerability to climate change and associated sea-level rise. They have been referred to as ‘sinking islands’, with some commentators predicting that they could become completely
uninhabitable within a generation. This work acknowledges that climate change is having a negative impact on these island communities. However, it would be too simplistic to only focus on this as the key factor in patterns of migration from the outer islands to the urban centres of each state.
There are multiple drivers for both internal and international migration, and also for the desire to reside in these communities for as long as they remain habitable. Through fieldwork interviews with residents of Vaitupu, an outer island of Tuvalu and Abaiang, an outer island of Kiribati,
this work seeks to understand the key determinants in residents deciding whether or not to relocate. Interviews were also conducted with former members of these communities that are now resident in the urban centres of Funafuti (in Tuvalu) and Tarawa (in Kiribati). Further context was supplied
via interviews with government officials, donor agencies and civil society groups.
The recent past as historical representation: The New Zealand film Out of the Blue (2006)
Authors: Straker Tory
Published: May 2014

New Zealand’s cinema is comparatively young, with almost 90 per cent of its film production having occurred within the last 35 years. Significantly, within this industry, films have repeatedly turned to representations of the past, in what appears as an attempt to understand the
cultural growth of a nation. An important, but often-overlooked element within historical recreations is the concept of recent history and its relevance on-screen. This will be explored in this article with a study of Robert Sarkies’s film Out of the Blue (2006), which is based on New
Zealand’s worst mass shooting, the Aramoana tragedy in 1991. Historical films are made at different cultural points in a nation’s creative history. It will therefore be necessary to not only consider the depictions of history but the different cultural attitudes of the period in
which a film was made. This article addresses the importance of history for cultural production, and the manner in which recreation of the past is achieved through important aspects such as mise-en-scène. Finally, this article constructs an understanding of the effect of contemporary
culture on the portrayal of New Zealand history and the interrelationship of fiction and fact in establishing a popular cinema.
Menores reincidentes y no reincidentes en el sistema de justicia juvenil andaluz
Authors: García España Elisa , García Pérez Octavio , Benítez Jiménez María José , Pérez Jiménez Fátima
Published: May 2014

En los últimos años han visto la luz varios informes sobre la reincidencia juvenil en el ámbito de distintas comunidades autónomas. Dentro del marco de un proyecto más amplio sobre seguridad ciudadana, se diseñó una investigación con la pretensión de abordar las variables legales y/o sociales que distinguen a los reincidentes de los no reincidentes en Andalucía. Con este trabajo, partiendo del marco legal constituido por la Ley Orgánica 5/2000, de 12 de enero, y sus sucesivas reformas, presentamos la reiteración delictiva de los menores obtenida a partir de una muestra de expedientes judiciales del sistema de justicia penal juvenil, así como una descripción panorámica de las variables personales, sociales y legales que nos permiten diferenciar con un análisis bivariable y de forma estadísticamente significativa, al grupo de menores reincidentes del de los no reincidentes en los tres juzgados andaluces analizados.
Buenas prácticas de calidad y trabajo social
Authors: Barranco Expósito Carmen
Published: May 2014

En este artículo se expone una visión sobre las buenas prácticas de calidad, enfoques y experiencias realizadas orientadas a generar procesos para fortalecer a las personas, organizaciones y comunidad; experiencias que, desde el Trabajo Social, se vienen aplicando, junto con otras disciplinas sociales, en organizaciones y talleres de formación con profesionales de diversas áreas de bienestar social. Dados los exitosos resultados que se vienen obteniendo, se propone seguir potenciando las buenas prácticas de calidad, con enfoques plurales positivos que engloban los sistemas de calidad integrados, la resiliencia y los diálogos apreciativos.
Prejuicios entre los estudiantes hacia las personas con discapacidad: reflexiones a partir del caso de la Universidad de Alicante
Authors: Suriá Martínez Raquel , Bueno Bueno Agustín , Rosser Limiñana Ana
Published: May 2014

Introducción. Evaluar la actitud que los estudiantes muestran hacia la discapacidad es fundamental para la integración de estos alumnos; por ello, existe en nuestro país una gran cantidad de investigaciones en esta materia, aunque son escasas las centradas en estudiantes universitarios. Objetivos. El propósito del estudio consiste en evaluar las actitudes de los estudiantes universitarios hacia los alumnos discapacitados en función del curso y la titulación de los estudiantes. Método. Participaron 340 alumnos de la Universidad de Alicante. Diseñamos un cuestionario donde se estiman las actitudes de los estudiantes. Resultados. Los resultados indican diferencias en las actitudes de los estudiantes en función del curso y de la titulación. Discusión y conclusiones. Nuestro estudio muestra que, en general, los alumnos presentan actitudes favorables hacia los alumnos con discapacidad, no obstante, encontramos que desde ciertas titulaciones, y en los cursos superiores, los estudiantes indican mayor nivel de sensibilización hacia la discapacidad.
Los valores sociales en el perfil profesional del trabajador social: un análisis con estudiantes universitarios
Authors: Yubero Jiménez Santiago , Larrañaga Rubio Elisa , Río Toledo Tatiana del
Published: May 2014

El Trabajo Social tiene por objeto incrementar el nivel de bienestar social de la población con necesidades. El perfil profesional del trabajador social del siglo XXI queda definido por unos rasgos propios que le caracterizan frente a otras profesiones, entre los que se encuentran una serie de valores necesarios para llevar a cabo su tarea profesional. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la estructura de valores de los estudiantes de Trabajo Social para comprobar cuáles son los que actúan diferencialmente frente a otras profesiones. La muestra de estudio está formada por 523 estudiantes universitarios de la UCLM (211 estudiantes de Trabajo Social), con una media de edad de 21.43 años. Los estudiantes completaron el Schwartz Value Survey (Schwartz, 1992, 2005; Schwartz, Sagiv y Boehnke, 2000). Los ANOVAS confirman que existen diferencias en los valores en función del grado que están realizando los estudiantes, pudiendo definir el perfil de los trabajadores sociales a partir de los valores de benevolencia, universalismo, autodirección y conformidad. Los resultados son discutidos en relación con las competencias y la formación de los trabajadores sociales.
Die Konvergenz der religionsrechtlichen Systeme in Europa
Authors: Robbers Gerhard
Published: May 2014

Unter dem Einfluss der europäischen Rechtsentwicklung lösen sich die nationalen religionsrechtlichen Traditionen und ihre regionalen Besonderheiten nicht auf, aber gleichen sich einander an. Die französische Laizität hat sich im 20. Jahrhundert in die Richtung einer vielgestaltigen Kooperation von Staat und Religionsgemeinschaften gewandelt, während sich das britische und das skandinavische Staatskirchentum in Richtung religiöser Neutralität des Staates bzw. einer Entstaatlichung der Kirche entwickeln. Auch nichtchristliche Religionsgemeinschaften sind in diese europäische Konvergenzbewegung einbezogen.
Das Leben ins Bild setzen
Authors: Kunz Florian
Published: May 2014

Das Paradigma der Dramaturgischen Homiletik bereichert die homiletische Landschaft in Deutschland. Kasualpredigten sind hierbei bisher allerdings nur wenig im Blick. Der Artikel macht den dramaturgischen Ansatz für den Kasus Bestattung fruchtbar: Im Wechselspiel von aktuellen kasualtheoretischen Fragestellungen mit Werkstücken aus Medien, Literatur und Predigtpraxis wird nach den Chancen eines RedenIn biografischen Szenen gefragt. Was trägt dieses zur Würdigung der Individualität gelebten Lebens bei? Inwieweit hilft es den Trauernden bei Prozessen des Erinnerns und Deutens und erschließt Trosträume?
Die Öffentliche Sichtbarkeit der Religion in der Tschechischen Republik infolge des Gesetzes über die Kirchen und Religionsgesellschaften (2002)
Authors: Přibyl Stanislav
Published: May 2014

Das Verhältnis von Religionsgemeinschaften und Gesellschaft ist durch das neue tschechische Kirchengesetz von 2002 entspannt und vereinfacht worden. Dieses Gesetz strukturiert das Verfahren der offiziellen Registrierung von Kirchen und Religionsgesellschaften in neuer, transparenter und liberaler Weise. Seit dem Inkrafttreten des Gesetzes wurden bisher vierzehn neue Subjekte registriert, einschließlich solcher buddhistischer oder hinduistischer Herkunft. Auf Grund ihrer geringen Größe dürfen die neu registrierten Religionsgesellschaften bisher nicht in der Öffentlich-rechtlichen Sphäre wirken, etwa in der Armee, im Gefängniswesen, im staatlichen Schulwesen und bei der Eheschließung. Gleichwohl ist mit dem neuen Gesetz eine für alle Beteiligten klarere Situation entstanden.
Der Öffentlich-rechtliche Status für Religionsgesellschaften im Lichte der neueren Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte
Authors: Heinig Hans Michael
Published: May 2014

Religion ist nicht nur Angelegenheit des Einzelnen, sondern immer auch Sache von Gemeinschaften. Für deren Organisation stellen die europäischen Staaten unterschiedliche zivil-oder Öffentlich-rechtliche Formen bereit. Diese unterliegen nationalem Recht, müssen sich aber im Streitfall vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte als gerichtsfest erweisen. Am Beispiel der Entscheidung zur (Nicht-) Anerkennung der Zeugen Jehovas in Österreich wird gezeigt, welchen Tendenzen die europäische Rechtsprechung im Blick auf das nationalstaatliche Religionsrecht folgt.
Die Diakonie in Europa
Authors: Wegner Katharina
Published: May 2014

Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die sozialrechtlichen Themen und Verfahren der europäischen Institutionen, die für die Arbeit der Diakonie von Bedeutung sind - etwa das europäische Vergaberecht für soziale Dienstleistungen oder die Förderpolitik der EU in ihrer Auswirkung auf die Armutsbekämpfung. In diesen und anderen Fällen betreibt die Diakonie eine gut vernetzte und nicht selten erfolgreiche Lobbyarbeit. Deren Aktivitäten gehen weit über institutionelle Eigeninteressen hinaus, insofern die Diakonie sich selbst dezidiert politisch versteht: Sie will Nächstenliebe, Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit im europäischen Gemeinwesen stärken.
Der „Öffentlichkeitsauftrag der Kirche“ und die Europäische Integration
Authors: Schnabel Patrick Roger
Published: May 2014

Auf europäischer Ebene sind die verfassten Kirchen in Deutschland nicht nur Rechtsunterworfene, sondern auch politische Akteure. In Ausübung ihres „Öffentlichkeitsauftrages“ vertreten sie einerseits ihre eigenen Interessen und nehmen andererseits Stellung in verschiedensten politischen Debatten. Der Beitrag stellt die allmähliche Institutionalisierung eines Austauschs zwischen Kirchen und europäischen Bürokratien dar und skizziert exemplarische Themen.