I argue that the bubonic tourist is a resistive and reflexive everyday character. I hypothesize that the bubonic tourist can generate spatial and temporal transgressions that sanction increased social agency and thereby transform our sense of subjectivity. By appropriating, cannibalizing, and carnivalizing social codes and modes of operation, I considered how communities are created through performance. I argue that by departing and arriving from the centre to the margins of a peer, social, and cultural genus—what Pierre Bourdieu calls habitus—marginalized individuals can both destabilize and inform demarcated and delimited categories. By performing and feeding back to social codes and norms experiences of the margins, the bubonic tourist creates fissures that engender self-reflexivity and meaning. I argue that, the bubonic tourist as a critical and creative practitioner can emancipate and empower the self and others. I considered how the bubonic tourist as an ethical individual is a member of a community that is created through performance. Finally, I considered how creative interventions might engender someone to transmogrify into the bubonic tourist and how as a methodology the bubonic tourist could have practical application. This study, seeks to outline the grounds in which instability can generate agency and a sense of self.

I argue that the bubonic tourist is a resistive and reflexive everyday character. I hypothesize that the bubonic tourist can generate spatial and temporal transgressions that sanction increased social agency and thereby transform our sense of subjectivity. By appropriating, cannibalizing, and carnivalizing social codes and modes of operation, I considered how communities are created through performance. I argue that by departing and arriving from the centre to the margins of a peer, social, and cultural genus—what Pierre Bourdieu calls habitus—marginalized individuals can both destabilize and inform demarcated and delimited categories. By performing and feeding back to social codes and norms experiences of the margins, the bubonic tourist creates fissures that engender self-reflexivity and meaning. I argue that, the bubonic tourist as a critical and creative practitioner can emancipate and empower the self and others. I considered how the bubonic tourist as an ethical individual is a member of a community that is created through performance. Finally, I considered how creative interventions might engender someone to transmogrify into the bubonic tourist and how as a methodology the bubonic tourist could have practical application. This study, seeks to outline the grounds in which instability can generate agency and a sense of self.

Yn yr ymchwil hwn ystyrir sut y gall astudiaethau perfformiad gynnig mewnwelediad i sut y mae cymdogaeth y capel Cymraeg - trwy weithredoedd perfformiadol - yn cael ei chreu, ac yn perthnasu at y capel. Trwy gyfuno damcaniaeth perfformiad ac ymarfer yng nghyd-destun y capel Cymraeg, mae’r ymchwil hwn yn gyfraniad gwreiddiol i’r meysydd dan sylw. Defnyddir syniadaeth Diana Taylor o’r archif a’r repertoire er mwyn esbonio bod perfformiad yn fodd dilys o fynegi hunaniaeth a bodolaeth. Trafodir wedyn fod modd cromfachu gweithgarwch perfformiadol er mwyn ei ddadansoddi. Cyfeirir at syniadaeth yr anthropolegydd Victor Turner fod perfformiad, o’i gromfachu, yn cynnig dramâu cymdeithasol (social drama) a fedr ddatgelu rhywfaint am hunaniaeth cymdogaeth. Arddelir methodoleg Ymarfer fel Ymchwil yn rhannol, mewn perthynas a syniadaeth ffenomenolegol, er mwyn trafod gweithgarwch byw repertoire'r capel. Er mwyn gosod sail i hyn, trafodir cyd-destun gweithgarwch perfformiadol y capel drwy edrych ar y berthynas hanesyddol a fodola rhwng y capel Cymraeg, cymdogaeth a pherfformiad, gan ddadlennu fod y berthynas rhwng y rhinweddau hyn wedi bod yn bresennol yn hanesyddol ac yn dylanwadu ar wead y rhinweddau heddiw. Trafodir profiadau o gyd-weithio’n ymarferol gyda thri chapel. Perfformiwyd darn unigol yn edrych ar fy mherthynas at y capel ar ffurf atgofion, wedyn gweithiwyd gyda’r capeli i greu perfformiadau a oedd yn dadlennu eu perthynas hwythau at eu capel. Bwriad y gwaith ymarferol oedd profi’n ymgorfforedig y modd y gall perfformiad glymu pobl at ei gilydd mewn cymdogaeth ac at ofod arbennig. Cyflwynir fel rhan o’r ddoethuriaeth berfformiad unigol i’r arholwyr, a dogfennaeth ar ffurf lluniau anffurfiol o berfformiadau’r capeli (gan gydnabod nad yw’r lluniau hynny, yr archif, yn medru cyfleu anian y gwaith.) Cesglir bod y repertoire yn bwysig er mwyn deall cyd-destun y capel Cymraeg, a bod defnyddio Ymarfer fel Ymchwil wedi caniatáu amlygiad o’r repertoire. Trwy’r ymarfer, gwelwyd bod y capel Cymraeg yn dibynnu ar egni’r gymdogaeth i’w ddiffinio drwy weithredoedd perfformiadol.

I argue that the bubonic tourist is a resistive and reflexive everyday character. I hypothesize that the bubonic tourist can generate spatial and temporal transgressions that sanction increased social agency and thereby transform our sense of subjectivity. By appropriating, cannibalizing, and carnivalizing social codes and modes of operation, I considered how communities are created through performance. I argue that by departing and arriving from the centre to the margins of a peer, social, and cultural genus—what Pierre Bourdieu calls habitus—marginalized individuals can both destabilize and inform demarcated and delimited categories. By performing and feeding back to social codes and norms experiences of the margins, the bubonic tourist creates fissures that engender self-reflexivity and meaning. I argue that, the bubonic tourist as a critical and creative practitioner can emancipate and empower the self and others. I considered how the bubonic tourist as an ethical individual is a member of a community that is created through performance. Finally, I considered how creative interventions might engender someone to transmogrify into the bubonic tourist and how as a methodology the bubonic tourist could have practical application. This study, seeks to outline the grounds in which instability can generate agency and a sense of self. / Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan) / Graduate