Quando os lugares importam:

provincializando o "global"

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58786/rbed.2022.v1.n1.53409

Keywords:

Coloniality, local knowledge

Abstract

Na primeira edição do livro “Rethinking dance history: a reader” (Repensando a história da dança: uma leitura), Alexandra Carter discutiu a necessidade de novas histórias na história da dança. Em particular, ela destacou a importância de ir além das narrativas lineares com pontos finais claros no tempo presente. “Nossas histórias podem acomodar atividades que não parecem contribuir de nenhuma maneira óbvia para o 'desenvolvimento' da forma de arte, mas, em seu tempo, foram uma parte vital dela”. (Carter, 2004, p. 13) Como historiadores da dança, a crítica de Carter nos ajuda a reconhecer que escrever sobre a história da dança é importante, mesmo quando não valida os gostos e ideias artísticas de hoje. Isso sugere que as investigações podem ser ainda mais urgentes, uma vez que pode nos ajudar a superar os preconceitos de nosso próprio tempo.

Author Biography

Emily Wilcox, William & Mary University, Estados Unidos da América

Emily Wilcox specializes in cultural studies of modern and contemporary China, with a focus on dance and performance art. She is the author of “Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese and the Socialist Legacy” (University of California Press, 2019, winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize) and co-editor of “Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia” (University of Michigan Press 2020). She has published several articles and book chapters on dance and performance in Asia and is a past president of the Association for Asian Performance. In 2014-15, she received a humanities fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2016-17, she received a Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Fellowship.

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WILCOX, Emily. Quando os lugares importam: : provincializando o "global". Brazilian Journal of Dance Research, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 353–370, 2024. DOI: 10.58786/rbed.2022.v1.n1.53409. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rbed/article/view/53409. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): Outras Danças, Muitas Histórias

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