Frictions and Flows: Affective Economies of Fire Dance in the Thai Tourism Industry

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dc.contributor.advisorMurray, David A. B.
dc.creatorPollock, Tiffany Rae
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T13:51:14Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T13:51:14Z
dc.date.copyright2018-08-14
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.updated2018-11-21T13:51:14Z
dc.degree.disciplineGender, Feminist and Women's Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines Thai fire dance, a form of labour in the Thai tourist industry, as a platform through which fire dancers confront and negotiate the tensions of increasing tourism, marginalization, capitalist expansion and neoliberal ideologies. In particular, this research highlights the ways in which affective, embodied and spatialized practices in fire art communities form political interventions and group solidarities that are also intimately entangled in the reproduction and recreation of social hierarchies and unequal relations of power. While fire dance communities hold utopic potentials and moments of sharing across spectrums of social difference that allow for the reimagination of geopolitical, cultural and ethnonational boundaries, they are also spaces and practices fully implicated in the issues they seek to address. The affect born and danced into being in these communities is the nexus through which these complex negotiations are worked out through the body, and is the basis for micropolitical and messy solidarities to form in the midst of capitalist and neoliberal times and spaces.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35551
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectDance
dc.subject.keywordsThailand
dc.subject.keywordsDance
dc.subject.keywordsMovement
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment
dc.subject.keywordsSpace
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational studies
dc.subject.keywordsGlobalization of culture
dc.subject.keywordsSoutheast Asia
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsSexuality
dc.subject.keywordsMasculinities
dc.subject.keywordsFemininities
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsTourism and performance
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalism
dc.subject.keywordsNeoliberalism
dc.subject.keywordsArt and politics
dc.subject.keywordsIntercultural communication
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical solidarities
dc.subject.keywordsAffect
dc.subject.keywordsEmotion
dc.subject.keywordsQueer theory
dc.subject.keywordsSexuality and erotics
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational performance
dc.subject.keywordsMoral economies
dc.subject.keywordsLabour
dc.subject.keywordsAffective labour
dc.subject.keywordsDance labour
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance labour
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational labour
dc.subject.keywordsMigration
dc.subject.keywordsThai and Burmese relations
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational dance and performance
dc.subject.keywordsSpatialities and labour
dc.subject.keywordsSpace and dance
dc.subject.keywordsThai tourism industry
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance in Southeast Asia
dc.subject.keywordsDance in Southeast Asia
dc.subject.keywordsDance and sexuality
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance and sexuality
dc.subject.keywordsDance and gender
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance and gender
dc.subject.keywordsEthnography
dc.subject.keywordsEthnicity
dc.titleFrictions and Flows: Affective Economies of Fire Dance in the Thai Tourism Industry
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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