Playing with Purpose: Adventures in Performative Social Science

✍ Scribed by Mary M. Gergen, Kenneth J. Gergen

Publisher: Left Coast Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Series: Writing Lives
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Distilling decades of work spanning their prestigious careers, Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work. They present a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provide an intellectually rich overview of its significance in the field, as well as its evolving potential. Many of their own performance pieces are included in the volume. The authors envision a broadening of the social sciences, making it more accessible to non-experts and opening up new dialogues between society and science—and changing the world in the process. Social scientists and researchers will gain a valuable new perspective from this insightful tome.

✦ Table of Contents

I. Toward a Performative Social Science
Scholarly Foreplay
Science as a Social Practice: The Grand Liberation
Fires at the Door: Performance Arts/Studies
The Flowering of Performative Social Science
Contributions of Performative Social Science

II. Literary Arts: Playing with Potentials
Duographic Writing
Collaging Voices
Multiplying Metaphors
Multiple Narratives
The Dialogic Alternative
Juxtaposing Genres
Reflections on Writing

III. Dramatic Arts
Performing the Mind
Performing Theory
Theatrical Power
The Costume is the Message
Reflecting on Dramatic Performances

IV. Visual Arts and the Performative
Playing with Sam
Relational Art
Photographic Playtime
Visual Rhetorics of the Real
Illustrating Organizational Theory
Reflecting on Visual Performance

V. Extending Experiments
Sculpting Ideas
Cartooning and Critique
To Song!
The Power of Multi-Media
Cyber-Graphics
Fragmented Moments: Haiku
Reflecting on the Extended Experiments

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