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Performance, Politics and Activism

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Peter Lichtenfels

    1. University of California, Davis, USA

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  2. John Rouse

    1. Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in International Performance (STUDINPERF)

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Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 1-14

  4. Disturbing the Political with Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. ‘Asking, We Walk’

      • Susan Kelly
      Pages 107-120

    3. Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness

      • Patrick Anderson
      Pages 121-131

    4. Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre: Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger

      • Lynette Hunter
      Pages 132-153

    5. Glocalqueer Pink Activism

      • Eng-Beng Lim
      Pages 154-166

    6. The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir

      • Stephen Morton
      Pages 167-177

  5. Critiquing the Political with Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. ‘Raw Life’ and the Ruse of Empathy

      • Frank B. Wilderson III
      Pages 181-206

    3. Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance

      • Jon D. Rossini
      Pages 207-219

    4. Peter Sellars’s Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays

      • Peter Lichtenfels
      Pages 220-236

    5. Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability

      • Shannon Jackson
      Pages 237-252

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-274
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Reviews

“The essays in Performance, Politics and Activism offer myriad alternatives for encountering and analyzing radical performances that operate in resistance to inherited representational strategies and repressive political structures. Performance Studies scholars as well as theatre researchers will find many points of entry in this eclectic, expansive, and nuanced collection.” (Christine Woodworth, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Davis, USA

    Peter Lichtenfels

  • Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego, USA

    John Rouse

About the editors

Moradewun Adejunmobi Patrick Anderson Marcela A. Fuentes (Marsha Gall) Lynette Hunter Shannon Jackson Susan Kelly Suk-Young Kim Peter Lichtenfels Stephen Morton Jane Plastow Jon D. Rossini John Rouse Frank B. Wilderson III

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