Description
Political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance. Theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts. Yet the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. Further, it is crucial to bring the concepts of theatre and performance deployed by other disciplines such as psychology, law, political anthropology, sociology among others into a wider, as well as deeper, interdisciplinary engagement. Embodying and fostering that engagement is at the heart of this new handbook.The Handbook brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance to map out the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. The authors--drawn from a wide range of disciplines--investigate the relationship between politics and performance to show that certain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines, and that they also share, to a large extent, a common communicational base and language. The volume is organized into seven thematic sections: the interdisciplinary theory of politics and performance; performativity and theatricality (protest, regulation, resistance, change, authority); identities (race, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, indigeneity); sites (states, borders, markets, law, religion); scripts (accountability, authority and legitimacy, security, ceremony, sustainability); body, voice, and gesture (representation, leadership, participation, rhetoric, disruption); and affect (media, care, love empathy, comedy, populism, memory).
Table of Contents
Introduction by Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, Shirin Rai, and Michael SawardPart I: Performativity/Theatricality1. Lisa Skwirblies - Colonial Theatricality2. Ameet Parameswaran - Theatricality, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Beyond Theatre of Roots3. Adrian Kear - Authenticity/Theatricality: World Spectatorship and the Drama of the Image4. Kate Leader - Law, Presence to Absence: The Case of the Disappearing Defendant5. Sophie Nield - Towards a Theatrical History of the Picket Line6. Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga - Protest and Performativity7. Jean-Pascal Daloz - RepresentationPart II: Identities8. Katie Beswick - Class, Race, and Marginality: Informal Street Performances in the City9. Carole Spary - Gender, Politics, Performance: Embodiment and Representation in Political Institutions10. Edgaras Klivis - National Identity11. Ioana Szeman - Performance and Citizenship: The Roma in Europe12. Yana Meerzon - From Exile to Migration - Staging (the) Face of the Human WastePart III: Sites13. Emma Cox - Island Impasse: Refugee Detention and the Thickening Border14. Kimberly Wedeven Segall - Media Sites: Political Revivals of American Muslim Women15. Nirmal Puwar - The Force of the Somatic Norm: Women as Space Invaders in the UK Parliament16. Matthew Watson - "The Market": Eighteenth-Century Insights into the Performance of Market Practices17. Charlotte Heath-Kelly - Staging Memorialisation: Performing the War on Terror and Resilient Nationalism18. Matt Davies - Urban Sites of the Everyday and the International: The Other City and the Aesthetic Subject19. Anna Leander - The Politics of Neo-Liberal Rituals: Performing the Institutionalization of Liminality at Trade Fairs20. Catherine Chinara Charrett - Empire: A Performative Approach to Imperial Frontiers and Formations in PalestinePart IV: Scripts21. Desiree Lewis - Nativism: African Bodies and Photographic Performance22. Willmar Sauter - Immersion23. Stuart Elden - Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology24. Erzsébet Strausz - Pedagogy: (Mis)performing the Contemporary University25. Julia C. Strauss - Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy: The View from China and Beyond26. John Uhr - Political Leadership: "Saving the Show"27. Vicky Angelaki - Adaptation and Environment: Landscape, Community and Politics in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019)Part V: Body/Voice/Gesture28. Sruti Bala - Hurling and Hailing: Scenes of Interruption and Interpellation29. Alan Finlayson - Performing Political Ideologies30. M.I. Franklin - Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics31. Lisa Fitzpatrick - Eroticism, and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body32. Bishnupriya Dutt - Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites33. Bree Hadley - What's in a Name?: The Politics of Labelling in Disability Performance34. Stephen Coleman - Taking a Position: Contemporary Dance and the Communication of Deep Political Feeling35. Julia Peetz - The Body Politic and JFK's Bad Back: Questions of Embodiment in the Performance of PoliticsPart VI: Affect36. Jordana Blejmar - Postmemory: Politics and Performance in Latin America37. Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison - Performing Political Empathy38. Narelle Warren - Care39. Nobuko Anan - The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan40. Emma Crewe and Nicholas Sarra - Constituency Performances: The "Heart" of Democratic Politics41. James Brassett - Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit42. Illan rua Wall - Atmospheres of Protest43. Goran Petrovic Lotina - Performance and Populism: Choreographing Popular Forms of Collectivity
