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Masks and Human Connections

Disruptive Meanings and Cultural Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Luísa Magalhães

    1. Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH), Braga, Portugal

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  2. Cândido Oliveira Martins

    1. Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH), Braga, Portugal

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  • Examines masks as identity and character to develop hybrid cultural processes leading to a new social contract

  • Adds to scarce interdisciplinary research on the meaning and ambiguity of masks to foster human relationships

  • Introduces a new interdisciplinary epistemological framework to approach human nature in communicative contexts

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Masks and Human Identities Within Collective Social Performances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Masks and Human Connections: An Introduction

      • Luísa Magalhães, Cândido Oliveira Martins
      Pages 3-13

    3. Unmasking the Protester: Deciphering the Collective Disguise of Masked Identities in Political Resistance and Communication

      • Sony Jalarajan Raj, Adith K. Suresh
      Pages 15-27

    4. Masked Belles and Beasts: Uncovering Toys as Extensions, Avatars and Activists in Human Identity Play

      • Katriina Heljakka
      Pages 29-45

    5. (M)asking for a Return: Social Hypocrisy and Social Engineering

      • Kristjan Kikerpill
      Pages 47-59

    6. Narrative Masking of Social Performance in Education

      • António Mendes
      Pages 61-81

    7. A Game of Masks: The Communicative Performance of the Portuguese Populist Far-Right

      • Rui Alexandre Novais
      Pages 83-98

  3. The Signifying Mask: Ethnographic Meanings and Representation Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. The Semiotics of the Mask: To Reveal by Concealing and Conceal by Revealing

      • Paulo M. Barroso
      Pages 101-113

    3. Masks and the Masked Ones: Performance, Interaction and Hybridity

      • Marcelo Fecunde De Faria, Robson Corrêa De Camargo
      Pages 115-134

    4. Sissy Masks: Effeminate Freak Show and Theatrical Faggotry in Pretending-to-Be-Gay Films

      • Gilad Padva
      Pages 135-147

    5. From Masking Pandemic Times to Identity Challenges: Representations in Current Literature

      • Cândido Oliveira Martins
      Pages 149-166

    6. Masks and Masquerades in Amazigh Morocco

      • Jean-Pierre Rossie
      Pages 167-187

  4. The Ambiguity of Masks Use in Visual Culture, Digital Contexts and Social Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. How to Build, Rebuild or Destruct Identity Through Face Masks in Visual Culture

      • Ana I. Albuquerque, Catarina Rodrigues
      Pages 191-205

    3. From Invisibility to Ethnic Humor on Social Networks: The Long Emancipation of the Portuguese in France

      • Manuel Antunes Da Cunha
      Pages 207-223

    4. The Ambiguity of Masks as Transformative Conveyors of Meaning: Protection, Disguise, and Interactive Performance

      • Luísa Magalhães
      Pages 225-241

    5. The Digital Mask on Social Media: The Tyranny of Beauty Filters Among Digital Natives

      • Enrique Castelló-Mayo, Antía M. López-Gómez
      Pages 243-259

  5. Shaping Intersubjective Relationships: Ethics, Reason and Memory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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About this book

This interdisciplinary collection explores four distinct perspectives about the mask, as object of use for protection, identity, and disguise. In part I, contributors address human identities within collective social performance, with chapters on performativity and the far right and masked identities in political resistance and communication. Part II focuses on the mask as a signifying object with strong representational challenges, exploring representations in festivals, literature, and film. Part III investigates the ambiguous use of the mask as a protective and concealing element, delving into visual culture and digital social media contexts. Finally, Part VI draws on the work of Levinas and Deleuze to investigate a philosophical view of the mask that addresses memory and ethics within intersubjective relationships. Questioning the contemporary world, using communication, sociology, visual culture, and philosophical theory, the volume provides a pedagogical and formative perspective on the mask.


Reviews

“The contributors to this fascinating book highlight the manifold ways in which the symbolic meanings and practices related to mask making and wearing have changed over time. The book tells you all you need to know about the history and enduring social power of the mask.” (Deborah Lupton, Professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Co-author of The Face Mask in COVID Times (2021))

“Masks and Human Connections is undoubtedly praiseworthy in facing the challenge of gathering and starting to articulate suggestions, studies, and interpretations concerning the new meanings of masks, with a rich variety of topics and methodologies.” (Massimo Leone, Professor of Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics at the University of Turin, Italy)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH), Braga, Portugal

    Luísa Magalhães, Cândido Oliveira Martins

About the editors

Luisa Magalhaes is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal, and editor of 'Toys and Communication' (2018)


Candido Oliveira Martins is Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Masks and Human Connections

  • Book Subtitle: Disruptive Meanings and Cultural Challenges

  • Editors: Luísa Magalhães, Cândido Oliveira Martins

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16673-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16672-3Published: 01 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16675-4Published: 02 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16673-0Published: 31 January 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 355

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Media Studies, Psychosocial Studies, Digital/New Media, Audio-Visual Culture

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