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(2018) Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Outlining the history of aviation as fundamentally theatrical, this chapter explores the border space as one in which we are called upon to appear as and perform self. This is a performance in which the normally covert ways in which we perform ourselves as "natural" become hard to maintain, opening up our awareness to both the process of our socialisation and our own potential for differing, of being "other" to ourselves, an oscillating self-other. As such, the performance of border crossing is one defined by unsteadiness and potential failure. What performative potential lies in our momentary dys-assembly at the border?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69572-3_4
Full citation:
Shih Pearson, J. (2018). Performing self at the border, in Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 83-101.
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