To access papers, click the "files" link below. Proposed paper groupings for close readings follow:
Social Action and Nationalisms
Edwin Emilio Corbin Gutiérrez, "Super Justice, Super Relajo, and Super Barrio Politics: Superbarrio in Mexico City"
Charmel A. Joiner, Ohio State University, "Parade to get Paid: Black Power and Economic Freedom through Barnstorming"
Jenna Kubly, "American Patriotic and Humanitarian Displays: The National Red Cross Pageant, 1917"
Jimmy A Noriega, "Performing a New Nation: “Day without an Immigrant” as Protest and Fiesta"
Affect and Collective Behaviors
Pablo Assumpção B Costa, "Sentimentality as Collective Experience: notes on the politics of eroticism in Brazilian carnival"
Courtney Elkin Mohler, "Festival, Nostalgia & the Making of Regional Identity in Santa Barbara, California’s 'Old Spanish Days Fiesta'"
Kevin Landis, "Carlos Uriona and the Double Edge Company"
J.L. Murdoch, "A Summons to Ecstasy: Form and Function in Korea’s Talchum Processional"
Utopias and reversals
Rachel Bowditch, "Rehearsing Utopia: Staging Identity, Politics, and Political Performance at the Burning Man Festival"
Jason Bush, "Staging the Ethnographic Archive: The Peruvian Scissors Dance and the Performativity of Heritage"
Christian DuComb, "The Wenches of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade: A Performance Genealogy"
Milla Riggio, "Praying to the Devil in Trinidad Carnival"
AnnMarie T Saunders, "Texts, Tropes, & Tortillas: A Performance Studies Investigation of Fiesta San Antonio’s Cornyation"