How built environment plays role in social transformation?This question is one concern of social-constructivism approach in study of place. Place construction studies focus on space that socially constructed and social that spatially constructed. This article explores place construction on urban social transformation in creative-kampung phenomena…[Read more]

The Pasupati flyover (Pasteur-Surapati) connecting Bandung to Jakarta has become a new symbol for the city. Recent policy has made the space located under the bridge, transformed from ‘dead space’ into a socially-significant urban space for marginal people governed by many stakeholders and consequently a contestation of multiple and con…[Read more]

Kampong Dago Pojok is a local neighborhood within the Dago area of Bandung, an area well-known for its cultural and artistic activities which have contributed significantly to the development of Bandung as a ‘creative city’ in the early 2000s. This paper draws on a participatory research method to explore the lived experiences and creative pra…[Read more]

How built environment plays role in social transformation?This question is one concern of social-constructivism approach in study of place. Place construction studies focus on space that socially constructed and social that spatially constructed. This article explores place construction on urban social transformation in creative-kampung phenomena…[Read more]

In the twenty-first century, the majority of people are living in cities—at least this is the credo communicated frequently. This statement has been strengthened by the “urban renaissance” that dawned at the beginning of the twenty-first century and by a globally evident increase in capital investment in urban-development projects. Such plann…[Read more]

In the twenty-first century, the majority of people are living in cities—at least this is the credo communicated frequently. This statement has been strengthened by the “urban renaissance” that dawned at the beginning of the twenty-first century and by a globally evident increase in capital investment in urban-development projects. Such plann…[Read more]

Depuis 1912, innombrables textes – romans, radio shows, bandes dessinées, séries de télévision, films – ont produit et articulé représentations de l’Afrique dans histoires dont le protagoniste est Tarzan, créé par l’étasunien Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). En prenant le nom « Afrique » comme référence, les textes qui orbitent et habitent…[Read more]

This interview with Rachel Mars was originally published by The Lark on 19 April 2017 as part of a blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich, called “Stages of Resistance.” The series reflected on themes related to political and aesthetic resistance in the making work for live performance. http://www.larktheatre.org/blog/our-carnal-hearts/

This book chapter analyses the experience of seeing two performances – La Fura dels Baus’s production of XXX and Ron Athey’s Solar Anus – during the first half of 2003, through the lenses of eroticism, death and visual theatricality.

This text was written and presented to introduce a screening of Sarah Polley’s 2012 film, ‘Stories We Tell’ on 22 February 2016 as part of the Peninsula Arts Women & Cinema season. It was published as a blog by The Arts Institute at the University of Plymouth on 25 February 2016:…[Read more]

A blog post on the performing body, presence and toxicity, reflecting on the deaths of Prince, Amy Winehouse, G.G. Allin and Whitney Houston. Published on the University of Plymouth’s Arts Institute blog, 6 May 2016: http://blogs.plymouth.ac.uk/artsinstitute/2016/05/06/feature-performing-the-toxic-body/

A blog post for the University of Plymouth’s Arts Institute on the French circus company, Archaos (published 9 July 2016): http://blogs.plymouth.ac.uk/artsinstitute/2016/07/09/feature-remembering-archaos-circus-with-attitude/

This is the final manuscript version of a chapter about Lynn Hershman’s Roberta Breitmore project, published in Susan Broadhurst & Josephine Machon (eds.), Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 126-141.

Appeals to a cosmic ecological democracy are common in environmentally engaged scholarship, and especially in ecological theology. This essay takes up the thought of Sylvia Wynter, Delores Williams, and Saidiya Hartman to argue for a different horizon for ecological politics.

In this class, students will engage in a critical examination of environmental transformations that arise from the complex interactions between natural systems and human activities. The pursuit of knowledge about natural resources and ecological systems is a scientific enterprise, yet addressing questions about the production, consumption,…[Read more]

Com base na hipótese de que a emergência histórica dos cinemas africanos e sua contemporaneidade são indissociáveis de uma reivindicação do direito de olhar, de narrar e de imaginar o mundo, este artigo busca estabelecer um quadro conceitual para uma história das formas de imaginação do comum nos cinemas africanos. Nessa história ainda a escrever…[Read more]

The central topic of João Botelho’s “Um adeus português” (1986), is memory in 1980s Portuguese society. The film alternates scenes from 1973, during the colonial war in Africa, with scenes set in 1985, in rural and urban areas of Portugal. In the present essay, I argue that the film enacts the need for a conversation among the Portuguese by opti…[Read more]

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Review of American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film by Ann Brigham (University of Virginia Press, 2015)