This paper articulates “repair work” – drawing from Eve Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading – as a jurisprudential activity. In the late 90s, Sedgwick urged her scholarly community to invest in reparative readings as a contrast to the prevalent hermeneutics of suspicion. The reparative impulse, she wrote, “is additive and accretive …. it wants to assemble and confer plenitude on an object that will then have resources to offer to an inchoate self”. A commitment to reparative reading entails an openness to surprise, to the rendering of the self as vulnerable, to the potentially traumatic experience of hope. In this paper, I describe how a material and theatrical jurisprudence imbricated within the body might give us the tools to perform repair.
I anchor my paper on a descriptive experience of the 2016 Indian performance piece Queen Size. At a time when homosexuality was a criminal offence in the country, this was a show which staged a joyful dissent against the law,
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"The Making of Paranoid Working Class"
Presented by: Brandon Hunter, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
This presentation traces the making of a working-class consciousness among taxi drivers employed in the tourism sector in the town of Playa del Carmen, MX. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with the city’s only taxi driver union, Brandon shows how drivers’ direct and indirect involvement in the local vice economy generated a critical understanding of the entanglements between crime, political corruption, and licit capitalist relations. Drivers’ proximity to organized crime was not only the result of the prominent role drug dealing and other forms of vice play in the tourism economy, but reflected an uneasy alliance struck between leaders in the taxi union and local criminal elements. While some drivers economically benefited from this arrangement, he underscores the emotional, psychological, and sometimes even physical toll this took on drivers. Br
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