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Drag Kings and Queens of Higher Education
No full textIn 2016 I authored the first UK drag module in Higher Education which was validated by Edge Hill University. The module garnered a vast amount of media attention. Initially the module offered was a critical reading of sexuality in performance in addition to using what is often termed ‘low’ art aspects of performance which emerge from popular or alternative culture, rather than from high art sources. The module was as a rediscovery of all I felt had been lacking in my own (in)formal drag performance. It was a rejuvenation of a performance form that I felt had been edited out of my professional performance career and research and somehow needed to be brought into the academy. This optional module analyzed relationships between performance, gender, sexualities and identity, and the ways in which performance might be deployed in the service of specific political and cultural agendas. Through a consideration of the performativity of drag performance, the module considered a variety of topics which included, but were not limited to: drag performance, costume, lipsyncing and the use of humour. Additionally, the module was underpinned by wider theories and histories of sexuality; performativity; gay and lesbian theatre; trans identities; drag; HIV/AIDS; activism. Final year undergraduate students undertaking this module considered the ways in which performance intersected with other identity-forming discourses such as gender, ethnicity and class. The overall purpose of this paper is to reflect critically on my practice as research projects on drag and how this led to the authoring of a higher education module. It will acknowledge the proliferation of interest in drag kings and queens in media, performance and academic circles. By building on the knowledge and understanding acquired through the study of various drag artists, political queer arts activists, LGBT festivals and performances the paper shall further discuss the scholarly respect and the media concern: is drag performance a serious enough academic subject area of study? <br/
You’ve Been Framed: Sketching Out the Contours of a Drag-Queer Interpretive Framework
Full text linkThe philosophical assumptions that guide research (ontology, epistemology, axiology) are folded into interpretive frameworks (Creswell, 2013). In a sense, then, interpretive frameworks serve as a bridge between theory and practice in social research. This chapter offers speculative ruminations on what a drag framework may look like, given that in research on drag, the practice often comes before the theory. This reversal of research design is paramount in understanding a creative and unbound practice such as drag. So,what can a drag theory bring?Early drag kings and queens are magpies in how they begin to formulate their performative personas. In the spirit of borrowing therefore, our first rumination concerns adoptions from kin-frameworks such as feminist and queer theories. The authors argue how a potential drag framework borrows but rejects elements of each of these existing frameworks. The values of experience and deep reflexivity that characterises feminist research is essential to practice-research and thus to drag theory. Yet, as feminist theories have splintered, including the minoritized yet venomously vocal pronouncements from gender criticalfeminists, feminism as an umbrella term is no longer a wholesale safe space for trans and queer people. A home for trans/queer people seems to naturally exist then in queer theory, yet the theory-twisting identity-rejecting principle of queer theory is to go beyond identity.A drag theory must embrace the solidity of multiple identities – quite simply because careers are built on identity formation, however temporal these may be.The chapter lays out the key foundations of a drag framework: intersectionality,polyvocality, political and activist agendas, alongside the disruptive and paradoxical nature of drag. A drag theory is a social justice theory then, that brings value to social and cultural research practices, bridging the gaps where existing frameworks do not quite fit
You’ve Been Framed: Sketching Out the Contours of a Drag-Queer Interpretive Framework
Full text linkThe philosophical assumptions that guide research (ontology, epistemology, axiology) are folded into interpretive frameworks (Creswell, 2013). In a sense, then, interpretive frameworks serve as a bridge between theory and practice in social research. This chapter offers speculative ruminations on what a drag framework may look like, given that in research on drag, the practice often comes before the theory. This reversal of research design is paramount in understanding a creative and unbound practice such as drag. So,what can a drag theory bring?Early drag kings and queens are magpies in how they begin to formulate their performative personas. In the spirit of borrowing therefore, our first rumination concerns adoptions from kin-frameworks such as feminist and queer theories. The authors argue how a potential drag framework borrows but rejects elements of each of these existing frameworks. The values of experience and deep reflexivity that characterises feminist research is essential to practice-research and thus to drag theory. Yet, as feminist theories have splintered, including the minoritized yet venomously vocal pronouncements from gender criticalfeminists, feminism as an umbrella term is no longer a wholesale safe space for trans and queer people. A home for trans/queer people seems to naturally exist then in queer theory, yet the theory-twisting identity-rejecting principle of queer theory is to go beyond identity.A drag theory must embrace the solidity of multiple identities – quite simply because careers are built on identity formation, however temporal these may be.The chapter lays out the key foundations of a drag framework: intersectionality,polyvocality, political and activist agendas, alongside the disruptive and paradoxical nature of drag. A drag theory is a social justice theory then, that brings value to social and cultural research practices, bridging the gaps where existing frameworks do not quite fit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1
No full textIn recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia. Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the histories, communities and politics that produced them. Chapters range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; 'bio'/faux queens; engagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity. Collectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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