Performing Race Performing Space RFG

Jisha Menon will discuss her recent book, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. Brutal Beauty conveys the affective life of the city through multiple aesthetic projects that express a range of urban feelings, including aspiration, panic, and obsolescence. As developers and policymakers remodel...

We are interested in everyday performances and performances of the everyday that critique constructions of race and gender as tied to effaced histories. Our conception of everyday performance attends to theorizations of spatial arrangements such as staging, ritual, and digitality that enrich our understanding of...