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3 - “Touch Not Mine Anointed”: #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and the Power of “See Finish”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2021

Abimbola A. Adelakun
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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This chapter, “Touch not Mine Anointed”: #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and the Power of “See Finish” analyzes what could happen when the performance of power identity through the production of images is interrupted. Here, I look at how a pastor stages his power identity through visuality, and how in the wake of the global #MeToo movement, his flow of visual signs and symbols to the audience was crucially undercut by the counter-power of women’s stories. The necessity of continuously being visible and performing one’s power means the inscription of their power identity on collective psyche also facilitated a critical reception of their persona. When leaders perform power by regularly thrusting themselves or their virtual images in front of their audience, they become overexposed and that opens them up for the possibility of disposability. What followed #MeToo events also shows how people who have performed power to the point of embodying power will double down on the use of power to sustain their identity.

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Performing Power in Nigeria
Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism
, pp. 102 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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