Performance, Politics and Activism (Hardcover)

This collection of essays on politics, the performing arts, and various forms of activist performance uses the framework of performance studies to explore the engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media. It places these engagements on various scales of performance production within local, national and transnational structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power. Performance has always been a way of articulating the conditions of contemporary society, and of pointing through the body of the performance to ways of defining, understanding and changing those conditions. Throughout these essays performance takes place in the environments of heightened everyday action, the aesthetic and cultural activity of the performing arts, and in the activist performance of political commitment. These trajectories in performance studies delineate the way people identify themselves and communicate with one another, both in attempts to change the structures of governance they experience, and vitally, alongside those structures.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in International Performance
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	P. Lichtenfels • J. Rouse
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-27856-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
LSN:	0-230-27856-6
Barcode:	9780230278561

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