Of Closure and Convention: surpassing representation through performance and the referential

Pihlainen, Kalle

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“…Mathieson and Stam (1995) are critical of the extent to which research on narrative has focused on the internal structure of stories and inadequately on their social nature; they argue that in telling narratives individuals draw on collective representations of reality that build up social representations of specific conditions (see also Murray, 2002). This process is clearly an important one when diagnosis is contested or, alternatively, when the politics of suffering require the kind of validation or affirmation offered by narrative processes (Crossley, 1999(Crossley, , 2003Pihlainen, 2002).…”

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The Absent Breast: Speaking of the Mastectomied Body

Manderson

Stirling

2007

Feminism & Psychology

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Worldwide, approximately 1 in 11 women have breast cancer at some time in their lifetime. The majority are successfully treated with surgery, then radiotherapy and/or chemo-therapy. Survival brings its own problems, however, including an underlying ontological problem: What is the part of the body left after a mastectomy? Women talking about their experiences of mastectomy are faced with complex referential tasks with regard to their bodies at different stages of the past and present, within different discourses (medical, sexual, maternal), and from different perspectives (the individual and the generic, their own perspective and that of their medical professionals). Drawing on anthropological research conducted among Australian women, we illustrate how women resolve difficulties of reference to the site of the mastectomy, and examine the shifts in perspective that are marked by different lexical choices.

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The Absent Breast: Speaking of the Mastectomied Body

Manderson

Stirling

2007

Feminism & Psychology

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“…One way of opposing these conventions is through confusion, which may be achieved by obstructing audiences' straightforward engagement with an artwork and their reliance on familiar patterns of interpretation (Pihlainen 2002). For instance, et al's practice incorporates texts that have words or sections that are partially erased, scratched through and rewritten.…”

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“…The artists' use of found objects exemplifies another way of subverting "normal" representational codes. These materials play with the meanings derived from their non-art contexts, but generate interpretative ambiguity when re-contextualized as part of a work of art (Pihlainen 2002).…”

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The Politics of Interfield Antagonisms

Bernanke

Phelan

2016

Journalism Studies

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Bourdieu's field theory has been used to analyse the internal dynamics of the journalistic field, and to compare journalistic fields in different national contexts. However, studies of the power relations between the journalistic field and other social fields have been less common, despite the theory's general assumptions about "the media's" capacity to shape the coordinates and subjectivities of agents elsewhere. This article explores the interfield antagonisms between the journalistic field and visual arts field that followed the nomination of the artist collective "et al." as New Zealand's representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. We focus on a particular journalistic interview where the different subjectivities of both fields encountered each other directly. Using conversation and discourse analysis as methodological supplements, we highlight how the journalist's rhetorical strategies enacted a logic of symbolic domination which decried the perceived unwillingness of the artists to render themselves accountable to the New Zealand "public". At the same time, we show how et al.'s counter-response politicized journalistic conventions normally taken for granted, and enabled an expression of artistic autonomy against the symbolic violence and naturalized authority of the journalistic field.

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“…The possibilities of alternative presentational forms have, however, still received scarce attention within historical writing (for more on these, see e.g. PIHLAINEN 2002;2009).…”

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On historical consciousness and popular pasts

Pihlainen

2013

Hist. Historiogr.

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This article investigates the nature of historical consciousness-conceptualizations and constructions of the past outside academic history-and the way in which this has changed in parallel with developments in historical theory in recent decades. With the increased constructivist questioning of historical narratives as somehow objectively true, academic history is seen to have lost some of its authority regarding the past. It is argued that, in becoming more aware of its nature as interpretation as well as more sensitive to its motives and consequences, history now has the potential to become more pragmatic and presentist. At the same time, some theoretical discussions have turned to the less strictly historical questions of memory and presence, thus evading the call to responsibility. By examining historical consciousness in relation to these debates, the article suggests that, in line with the liberation of the past from the constraints of academic history, historical consciousness no longer needs to be as focused on the interpretations and knowledge provided by the institution of history but can be increasingly determined by popular understandings and the needs of consumers.

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Of Closure and Convention: surpassing representation through performance and the referential

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

The Absent Breast: Speaking of the Mastectomied Body

The Absent Breast: Speaking of the Mastectomied Body

The Politics of Interfield Antagonisms

On historical consciousness and popular pasts

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