This article examines an episode of goat sacrifice performed on an airline tarmac in Pakistan and the feelings and interpretations various audiences expressed in response to it, to make two specific contributions to the literature on cultural performance. First, by focusing on the ways that affective responses to the performance were socially structured, it describes how cultural performances, like the goat sacrifice, shape affective citizenship by way of feeling rules. Second, this article focuses on the affective dimensions of the goat sacrifice to theorize a novel form of fusion, I call “disruptive fusion.” Disruptive fusion turns in the goat sacrifice case on jugaar, a strategy of subversive improvisation associated with subalterns in South Asian settings. Despite its association with subversive ingenuity, jugaar, I show in this paper, can work also as a mechanism of stratification. It amplifies exclusions, I argue, because even ostensibly subversive cultural performances, like goat sacrifice on an airline tarmac, activate feeling rules. These rules proscribe certain affective expressions while highlighting others. Since emotions activate cognitive schema, feeling rules can shape the extent to which certain interpretations gain traction in the public sphere. This paper demonstrates how the feeling rules embedded within cultural performance can work to amplify certain interpretations of a news story, and therefore heighten some people's claims to affective citizenship while squashing others.

本文考察了在巴基斯坦航空公司停机坪上表演的山羊祭祀的一集，以及不同观众对此所表达的感受和解释，以对文化表演文献做出两个具体贡献。首先，通过关注对表演的情感反应的社会结构方式，它描述了文化表演，如山羊祭祀，如何通过感觉规则塑造情感公民。其次，本文重点讨论山羊祭祀的情感维度，以将一种新颖的融合形式理论化，我称之为“破坏性融合”。jugaar山羊祭祀案中的颠覆性融合，一种与南亚环境下的下属相关的颠覆性即兴创作策略。尽管它与颠覆性的独创性有关，但我在本文中展示的 jugaar 也可以作为一种分层机制。我认为，它放大了排斥，因为即使表面上是颠覆性的文化表演，比如在飞机停机坪上献祭山羊，也会激活感觉规则。这些规则禁止某些情感表达，同时突出其他表达。由于情绪激活认知图式，感觉规则可以影响某些解释在公共领域获得牵引力的程度。本文展示了嵌入在文化表演中的情感规则如何能够放大对新闻故事的某些解释，从而提高一些人对情感公民的要求，同时压制其他人。