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This edited collection includes contributions across various disciplines to analyze performances of political resistance and protest to Russia's authoritarian and hegemonic practices after the collapse of the Berlin wall and specifically under Putin.
It examines how these performances operate as an immediate response to the oppressive moment but also harbour 'the possibility of difference... the possibility that the past may yet have another future' (DeFranz and Furtado).
In the context of Russia's Post-Soviet histories of rising nationalism and neo-colonialism, the volume addresses such questions as, What are the ways to consider expressions of resistance and their potential to contest or disrupt autocracy and coloniality on a historical continuum and today? How do the expressions, languages, and forms of resistance reemerge, replicate, and intersect across past decades and artistic mediums? And how do they perform marginality, reveal perspectives of the other, and gesture toward the future?
International and interdisciplinary in scope, it considers performance of protest in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Hungary, Poland, and the Caucasus and Central Asian regions of the former Soviet Union. The range of performances of resistance is equally broad, encompassing performing a social or religious ritual in a public sphere, public speaking, collective or individual reenactments of past traumatic events, traditional storytelling, and social media activism or journalism.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa, Canada), Julia Listengarten (University of Central Florida, USA), Varvara Sklez (University of Warwick, UK)
PART ONE: DRAMATURGIES OF RESISTANCE AND PROTEST
1. Maksim Hanukai, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. The Biopolitical Economy of Moscow
2. Varvara Sklez, Warwick University, UK. Protesting Bodies in Alliance Through Time: Rehearsing Support in That's Not Why You're Being Judged
3. Katarzhyna Syska, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Performing Death in Contemporary Russian Artistic Activism and Drama
4. Aniko Szucs, Skidmore College, USA. Dystopia as Protest: The Productions of Chaos, 2045 and 1984 in Hungary
5. Anna Lytvynova, Northwestern University, USA. Performing Digital Precariousness: Social Media and the Construction of National Identity in Russia's War in Ukraine
PART TWO: WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND PROTEST
6. Vera Boicova, Independent theatre and performance artist. Eve's Ribs Feminist Protest Art Festival: Fight for Representation.
7. Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA. Speaking Truth to Power: Expressions of Holy Foolishness as a Form of Resistance
8. Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada. Staging History - Performing Protest in Anastasia Patlaj's Documentary Theatre
9. Alexandra Dunaeva, independent scholar, Finland. Wound to Wound. Judith Performance by the Conversations Theater Company (St. Petersburg)
10. Inna Perheentupa, Galina Miazhevich & Saara Ratilainen, FEMCORUS project, Tampere University, Finland. Smuggling' Anti-War Information with the Feminist Zine Zhenskaya Pravda.
PART THREE: DECOLONIZING RUSSIAN NATIONALISM
11. Ewa Bal, Jagellonian University, Poland, & Kasia Lech, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Situatedness against biopolitics of the past. Pragmatics of theatre and the turn towards localness in Polish theatre after 1991.
12. Anna Hodel, University of Basel, Switzerland. Decolonization as De-heroization: Performative Protest in Ukrainian Women's Theatre since 2014
13. Margarita Kompelmakher, independent scholar, Atlanta, USA. The Art of Being Direct: Resisting Nationalism in the Work of the Belarus Free Theatre
14. Kamila Mamadnazarbekova, Sorbonne University, France. Zarema Zaudinova - Feminist Killjoy from the Caucasus
15. Mark Simon, University of Göttingen, Germany. Communicating Social Justice Ideas through Pop Music in Russia: Manizha Sangin's Artistic Career between Marginality and Mainstream
CODA
16. Sergei Ostrovsky, London, UK, Conversation about Marina Davydova's Museum of Uncounted Voices: Contemplating Maps, Borders, and National Identities Then and Now
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