Ritualizing and Materializing Citizenship
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Ritualizing and Materializing Citizenship. / Damsholt, Tine.
In: Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2009, p. 17-29.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Ritualizing and Materializing Citizenship
AU - Damsholt, Tine
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper focuses on the possible transformation of the self in citizenship ceremonies in Western countries. It is argued that the transformation in these life defining moments is not only a question of ritual objectification or intentionality. The rituals are often experienced as emotional by the participants, but the emotional experience is often a matter of their own doing. From a performative approach the ritual agency is distributed, and as technologies of the civic self the subjectification is a heterogeneous and complex process, with multiple versions of transformations of the self. These transformations engage a so called ‘ontological choreography' in which processes of ritual objectification and subjectification are intertwined, involving materiality, performativity, structural constraint, and the co-dependence of the performers.
AB - This paper focuses on the possible transformation of the self in citizenship ceremonies in Western countries. It is argued that the transformation in these life defining moments is not only a question of ritual objectification or intentionality. The rituals are often experienced as emotional by the participants, but the emotional experience is often a matter of their own doing. From a performative approach the ritual agency is distributed, and as technologies of the civic self the subjectification is a heterogeneous and complex process, with multiple versions of transformations of the self. These transformations engage a so called ‘ontological choreography' in which processes of ritual objectification and subjectification are intertwined, involving materiality, performativity, structural constraint, and the co-dependence of the performers.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Ritual, citizenship, distributed agency
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 17
EP - 29
JO - Journal of Ritual Studies
JF - Journal of Ritual Studies
SN - 0890-1112
IS - 2
ER -
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