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The Witness Security Program: Becoming Imperceptible in the Relocation Matrix
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2015 (T226)
- pp. 74-91
- Article
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How are relocated witnesses in the US federal witness security program equipped to “hide in plain sight” and remain untraceable? Two models of social identity combine to account for this — social role play (Goffman) and performativity (Butler, Barad, Braidotti) — as an immanent process of “becoming-imperceptible.”