Introduction: The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures

Burlein, Ann; Orr, Jackie

doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0008

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“…A significant body of critical theory has identified enchantment as an important counter-tendency to the ossifying logic of modernity. Ann Burlein and Jackie Orr, in considering its feminist significance, write, ‘The force of enchantment … activates sensual matters in uncertain ways, via rhythm, play, poetic gesture, vibratory frequencies that confuse or re-fuse familiar temporalities, and initiate transformed perception’ (2012: 15). They describe a non-rational epistemology, an experience of disorientation that breaks with modernity’s logics of linearity, clarity and mastery.…”

Section: Enchantment As Idea and Experiencementioning

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Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

Parkins

2017

French Cultural Studies

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This article examines men’s writing about women as vectors of enchantment in three interwar French women’s magazines, La Femme Chic à Paris, Vogue and Gazette du Bon Ton. Such articles appeared frequently, and modernised the ancient discourse of feminine enchantment by locating it in tropes of industrial modernity, including women’s fashion and style. While enchantment is a promising concept for feminist and critical scholars, its representation in this genre of men’s writing domesticates its potential to disorient and challenge masculine subjects and conventional knowledges. The essay explores how the generic qualities of the modern women’s magazine contribute to such a domestication, and shows that tropes of modern alienation appear as the underside of feminine enchantment. The analysis suggests that we must view the women’s magazine not as women’s space, but as a heterogeneous cultural space that intermittently reinforces masculine authority.

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Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

Parkins

2017

French Cultural Studies

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“…In fact, for Woodyer and Geoghegan (2012: 205, emphasis added), 'appreciating enchantment in the ordinary requires attention to the possibilities for how our world might be otherwise'. By confusing or refusing familiar spaces or temporalities, enchantment challenges us to constantly re-imagine a world in which one can flourish (Burlein and Orr 2012) and so 'offers a practical means of negotiating the bitter-sweet, of being energised rather than paralysed' (Woodyer and Geoghegan 2012: 209) by discontinuities. Thompson and Coskuner-Balli (2007) briefly comment on the enchantment experienced by community supported agriculture (CSA) producers, highlighting one farmer who had 'always been captivated by root vegetables' (ibid: 284).…”

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Enchanting resilience: Relations of care and people–place connections in agriculture

Herman

2015

Journal of Rural Studies

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Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time Enchantment. Bog Bodies, Crannogs and ‘Otherworldly’ sites. The materializing powers of disjunctures in time

Fredengren

2016

World Archaeology

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Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time Enchantment. Bog Bodies, Crannogs and 'Otherworldly' sites. The materializing powers of disjunctures in time Deep time The concept of 'deep time' is rooted in challenges to officially sanctioned biblical narratives. Bishop James Ussher's edict that the earth was created in 4004 BC was challenged by James Hutton's observations on the deep stratigraphy evident in the exposed strata of Scottish sea-cliffs (McPhee 1981, 20). These observations led him to propose that the planet was much older. In fact it is 4.5 billion years old, whereas the span of humanity within this long-term history of the earth is relatively short, making it hard to grasp our place within this geological 'deep time' (McPhee 1981, 20). Chakrabarty (2009, 213-20) thus argues that in order to better understand both our situated position and responsibilities within the contemporary world with its climate and environmental problems, there is a great need to question the barriers between histories of geological deep time, natural history and that of the human. This will have major implications for how history is studied and comprehended. Such a union has the capacity to query what a world without humanity might be like, and analysing the important boundary of the 'Anthropocene', where (following the Holocene) human beings are understood to have crossed the nature:culture boundary to become one of the main actors in global geological change (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). The present can then be understood as a key period, whereby the transformation of the earth is happening at such an accelerated rate (Steffen et al. 2015) that it could threaten the life conditions for many species on the planet.

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Introduction: The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

Enchanting resilience: Relations of care and people–place connections in agriculture

Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time Enchantment. Bog Bodies, Crannogs and ‘Otherworldly’ sites. The materializing powers of disjunctures in time

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