Representing Practice: An Assist from Dwight Conquergood, Part 3 of 3
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. What has been missing for me so far in Conquergood’s theory of the representation of practice through performance is a sufficiently subtle account of how the four traps that lay in wait for the performer (or read here: theologian) are not determinable in some objective way apart […]
Representing Practice: An Assist from Dwight Conquergood, Part 2
Part 1 is here. Conquergood provides four different ways of representing the practice of others, drawn in the service of a “moral mapping of performative stances towards the other” (p. 5). First is “The Custodian’s Rip-Off.” When we characterize practice in this way, we are taking away from others rather than being curious about them. […]
Representing Practice: An Assist from Dwight Conquergood, Part 1
I am just now learning about the work of ethnographer, performance theorist, and activist Dwight Conquergood. A friend who was one of his students at Northwestern University referred me to an article he wrote that she thought might intersect helpfully with practical theology, and I think it does. The article is “Performing as a Moral […]