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The grammar of politics and performance
Title
The grammar of politics and performance / edited by Shirin M. Rai and Janelle Reinelt.
ISBN
9780415716505
0415716500
9781315879871
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Physical Description
xiv, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume brings together important work at the interstection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines such as psychology (Freud's primal 'scene'), sociology (Goffman's 'backstage'), and politics (politicians 'play' to the public, stage debates), this metaphorical attribution has seldom been taken seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other realms"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 08, 2015
Series
Interventions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction / Janelle Reinelt and Shirin Rai
Performing democracy : roles, stages, scripts / John Parkinson
Performance at the crossroads of citizenship / Janelle Reinelt
"I am an American" : protesting advertised "Americanness" / Cynthia Weber
Characterisation and systemic gender violence : the example of laundry and the figure of the mother in Irish culture / Lisa Fitzpatrick
Theatricality vs. bare life : performance as a vernacular of resistance / Silvija Jestrovic
Becoming a democratic audience / Alan Finlayson
Street arts, radical democratic citizenship, and a grammar of storytelling / Susan Haedicke
Tahir Square, EC4M : the Occupy Movement and the dramaturgy of public order / Sophie Nield
Temporality, politics and performance : missing, displaced, disappeared / Jenny Edkins
Performance and politics : ceremony and ritual in Parliament / Shirin Rai
Bringing the audience back in : Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the efficacy of public hearings / Gabrielle Lynch
Betrayal and what follows : rituals of repentance, healing and anger in response to the church sexual abuse scandal in Ireland / Joshua Edelman
Closet grammars of intentional deception : the logic of lies, state security, and homosexual panic in Cold War politics / James Harding
Afterword / Mike Saward.
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