White supremacist performance and its refusal: a reflection on the mosque shootings in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand

IF 0.3 3区 艺术学 0 THEATER
Emma Willis
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ABSTRACT The terror attack carried out at two mosques in Aotearoa New Zealand by a white supremacist in 2019 was intended as a spectacle for mass public consumption. Its live-stream on Facebook invited hyper-identification (akin to a first-person shooter game), exploiting the disembodied nature of digital connection. In this essay, I draw from Judith Butler’s concept of ‘hallucinatory merging’ to characterize this performativity and to suggest that both the killings and their filming were an attack on the ‘generativity’ of the assembly of bodies-in-prayer. The public response led by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern avowedly rejected the ideology of white supremacy that motivated the attack. Her remark that ‘this is not us’ galvanized public sentiment, generating waves of public solidarity and a variety of public counter-performances. At the same time, this was a white supremacist act carried out in a settler (post-colonial) society, throwing into sharp relief the everyday performances of racial intolerance that trouble the notion that this is ‘not us,’ a point made by various communities including Indigenous Māori. In tracing the two opposed modes of performance – that of white supremacist exclusivity and a national narrative of inclusion – I reflect on their entanglement as well as their distinction.
白人至上主义的表现及其拒绝:对新西兰基督城清真寺枪击事件的反思
2019年,一名白人至上主义者在新西兰奥特罗阿的两座清真寺发动了恐怖袭击,目的是为了让公众消费。它在Facebook上的直播吸引了高度认同(类似于第一人称射击游戏),利用了数字连接的非实体本质。在这篇文章中,我借鉴了朱迪思·巴特勒的“幻觉融合”概念来描述这种表演,并提出杀戮和拍摄都是对祈祷中的身体集会的“生成”的攻击。新西兰总理杰辛达·阿德恩(Jacinda Ardern)领导的公众反应公开拒绝了引发袭击的白人至上主义意识形态。她的“这不是我们”的言论激起了公众的情绪,引发了一波又一波的公众团结和各种公众对抗表演。与此同时,这是在移民(后殖民)社会中实施的白人至上主义行为,使种族不容忍的日常表现突显出来,这种不容忍困扰着“不是我们”的概念,包括土著Māori在内的各个社区都提出了这一点。在追踪两种对立的表现模式——白人至上主义者的排他性和国家包容叙事——的过程中,我反思了它们的纠缠和区别。
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