Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism

Thinking the Political Anew
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-31975-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: Studies in International Performance

This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wickstrom, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Making the Space of the New Present: Theatre in Palestine Efficacy, Sufferers, Camps and Redistribution: Theatre for Development and The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City Nomads: Irish Traveller Theatre, Housing, and Appearance Exhibited Bodies, Mr. Biopower, and the Inhuman: A Brief Continuation and a Coda Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MAURYA WICKSTROM Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of . Her articles have been published in , and the . Her essay, appeared in , edited by Joseph Roach.