| ID | 144169 |
| Title Proper | Worlding miss world, Bangalore, 1996 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mazzarella, William |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This essay revisits the much-discussed swarm of protests surrounding the 1996 Miss World pageant in Bangalore, India. It suggests that behind the clamour of clashing opinions regarding the content of the pageant lay a deeper crisis, uninterrogated yet constantly palpable: the absence of a performative dispensation within which the then-nascent project of liberalisation could, paradoxically, be experienced as self-grounding. By organising its discussion around interviews with some of the people most directly involved in trying to manage the meaning of the event – through sponsorship, public relations, policing, and protest – the essay shows how a reconsideration of the pageant can help us understand the delicate relation between commercial publicity and sovereign authority in a globalising age. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 23, No.3; Jun 2016: p. 294-306 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2016-06 23, 3 |
| Key Words | Sovereignty ; Liberalisation ; India ; Publicity ; Policing ; Sponsorship |