Issue #37 Carnival to Commons: Pussy Riot, Punk Protest, and the Exercise of Democratic Culture

Carnival to Commons: Pussy Riot, Punk Protest, and the Exercise of Democratic Culture

Claire Tancons

Issue #37
September 2012










Notes
1

Konstantin von Eggert, “Carnival spirit is not enough to change Russia,” Financial Times, March 1, 2012. See .

2

Alissa de Carbonnel, “Carnival is over,” Reuters, March 9, 2012. See .

3

Irina Sandomirskaja, “Khutin Pui, or What’s in Moscow? Election Campaign, a View from Below,” Baltic Worlds, March 1, 2012. See .

4

Clayton, Douglas, J. Pierrot in Petrograd: The Commedia dell’Arte/Balagan in 20th century Russian Theatre and Drama (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993), 10.

5

Mansur Mirovalev, “Pussy Riot: Guide to all six of their songs and how they reflect Russia’s anti-Putin uprising,” The Province, August 18, 2012. See .

6

Charles Clover, “Pussy Riot dig claws into Putin,”Financial Times, March 16, 2012, See →.

7

See Angela MacRobbie, The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change (London: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2009).

8

Miriam Elder, “We are representative of our generation,”The Guardian, August 17, 2012. See .

9

See .

10

Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson and Wayne C. Booth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984). In this translation, the word carnivalistic is used. I have chosen to use instead the more common and accepted word carnivalesque.

11

Ibid., 124.

12

Sandomirskaja, op. cit.

13

Ken Hirschkop, Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 279.

14

Bakhtin, 123.

15

Bakthin, 160.

16

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Declaration (Argo Navis Author Services, 2012), 18.

17

Ibid., 42–3.

18

Ibid., 7. Also see Chapter 1: Subjective Figures of the Crisis, 9–30.

19

Ibid., 60 and Next: Event of the Commoner, 101–8.

20

Hirschkop, 293–4.

21

Hardt and Negri, 79.







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