Editorial : On Affirmation

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. We think of affirmation as an act or a gesture, e.g., a round of applause or a standing ovation; an iteration or an appraisal, e.g., a vow or a review; and as an affect or a field of affects that supports and mobilizes certain behaviours, events and ways of being.