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This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important new theoretical and empirical research. It builds new paradigmatic bridges between philosophical enquiry and fields of application across the arts, political activism, children's play, education and political science.
Play and Democracy addresses four principal themes. Firstly, it explores how the relationship between play and democracy can be conceptualized and how it is mirrored in questions of normativity, ethics and political power. Secondly, it examines different aspects of play in urban spaces, such as activism, aesthetic experience, happenings, political carnivals and performances. Thirdly, it offers examples and analyses of how playful artistic performances can offer democratic resistance to dominant power. And finally, it considers the paradoxes of play in both developing democratic sensibilities and resisting power in education. These themes are explored and interrogated in chapters covering topics such as aesthetic practice, pedagogy, diverse forms of activism, and urban experience, where play and playfulness become arenas in which to create the possibility of democratic practice and change.
Adding extra depth to our understanding of the significance of play as a political, cultural and social power, this book is fascinating reading for any serious student or researcher with an interest in play, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, sport or education.
Contents
1. How Play Matters for Democracy, Part I: Play, Normativity and Contesting Democracy, 2. Theatre and its Discontents, 3. Democracy, Power and Powerlessness of Art, 4. Can Role-Playing be Wrong? An Analysis of the Normativity of Play from the Perspective of the Enactive Cognitive Science, Part II: Urban Spaces and Playful Activism, 5. On Unforeseen Constellations and Constant Flux: Dialectical Activism and Metamorphoses, 6. The City as Spielraum: Play, Aesthetic Experience and Politics in Urban Space, 7. Can I Join In? Playful Performance and Alternative Political Realities, 8. Velvet Carnival: Play and Embodied Reflexivity, Part III: Playful Artistic Performance as Resistance to Dominant Power, 9. The Gift of Silence: Towards an Anthropology of Jazz Improvisation as Neuro-Resistance, 10. ¡Viva el Juego! Play in Latin American Performance Art, 11. Life in Cinematic Bodies at Play: The Example of Daisies (1966), Part IV: Paradoxes of Play and Democracy in Education, 12. Schooling the New Sensibility: Communal Philosophical Dialogue, Play, and Social Democracy, 13. Play and the Pedagogical Apparatus, 14. Child's Play: Inadvertent Tactical Resistance and Unofficial Power, 15. Playful Democracy, Democratic Playfulness and Philosophical Dialogue(s): Reflections from Two Conference Ethnographers
