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This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism
that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including
Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United
States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest
the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender,
sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of
discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies
based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory
follow the circulation of intensities - of political impingements
on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of
dispossession - within and beyond individuals to the social and
political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the
volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether
live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no
activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table
the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.
This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship.
It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women's issues and
environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering
scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by
contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the
dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes,
the relational identities of feminists and ecofeminists, and the
concept of ecofeminism as a rallying point for environmental
feminism. The volume defines ecofeminism as a multidisciplinary
project and will appeal to readers working within the field of
Environmental Humanities.
This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism
that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including
Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United
States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest
the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender,
sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of
discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies
based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory
follow the circulation of intensities - of political impingements
on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of
dispossession - within and beyond individuals to the social and
political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the
volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether
live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no
activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table
the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.
This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship.
It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women's issues and
environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering
scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by
contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the
dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes,
the relational identities of feminists and ecofeminists, and the
concept of ecofeminism as a rallying point for environmental
feminism. The volume defines ecofeminism as a multidisciplinary
project and will appeal to readers working within the field of
Environmental Humanities.
"Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of
the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological
history of White's plays as they progress through different
productions, revivals, and receptions ... This is an essential
insight, and one which could be usefully extended to White's
novels, and perhaps to Australian modernism broadly." - Jonathan
Dunk, Australian Book ReviewOne of the giants of Australian
literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel
Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he
turned his hand to playwriting. In Patrick White's Theatre, Denise
Varney offers a new analysis of White's eight published plays,
discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of
60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the
Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating
digital technology, these productions and their reception
illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian
theatre over time. Varney unpacks White's complex and unique
theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a
playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and
theatrical traditions.
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium that took place
in Melbourne in September 2006. Its focus is on theatre at the
intersection of culture and politics during and after German
reunification and the evolution of the Berlin Republic. The book
considers how canonical and new theatrical works, including those
performed at the renowned former East German theatres - the
Deutsches Theater, the Volksbuhne and the Berliner Ensemble -
resonated with reunification. Topics include the dynamics of
theatrical performance, the emergent performative identities, the
new alliances between theatre and the world, the re-engagement with
history and the shifting perspectives of nationalism,
transnationalisation and globalisation. These matters acquire
renewed focus with the approach of the twentieth anniversary of the
fall of the wall in 2009. The book is the first to offer
English-speaking readers a collection of essays on the key
theatrical productions of this dynamic period of cultural and
political change. Underlying the collection is a reaffirmation of
the continuing relevance of theatre to events in the public sphere.
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