... Cambodia war disability pageant rights ...

... Miss Landmine Angola Morten Traavik Disability Beauty pageant Joice Heth ...

... Staged just twice, first in Angola and later in Cambodia, the Miss Landmine pageant follows from a not uncommon faith that beauty is both a humanitarian problem and also its resolution. This chapter holds together the sprawling international complex that funds and conducts prosthetic...

... This chapter uses genealogical performances of disability by women such as Joice Heth to understand the spectacle of Miss Landmine Angola, a beauty pageant organized by Morten Traavik for survivors of landmine detonations. Looking at the website and images as a form of archive, I think through...

..., stereopticon displays, pageants, and songs—established the Institutes’ multimedia rhetorical strategies that conveyed their political and social program, and are important precursors to uplift films. While these materials were primarily targeted toward white philanthropists in the North, they also circulated...

.... This chapter considers the corpus of shared cultural references conjured up at two of these events—a pageant and a musical performance—and discusses the ways that corpus was resignified in the course of improvisational interactions among performers and spectators. Finally, it looks at how the commemorative...

... for the emergence, in symbolically charged public spaces, of bodies, voices, and memories often perceived as bearers of that social polarization. This chapter considers the corpus of shared cultural references conjured up at two of these events—a pageant and a musical performance—and discusses the ways that corpus...