
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).
This volume investigates the intersection of political science and performance studies to determine how shared communicative frameworks and theatrical concepts inform political transactions. The editor, Mary Gallagher, assembles a diverse cohort of scholars from fields including law, psychology, and anthropology to formalize the interdisciplinary study of performativity. The text argues that political processes—ranging from protest and regulation to leadership and rhetoric—are fundamentally structured by the same mechanisms that govern theatrical performance.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts identify this volume as a foundational resource for scholars seeking to bridge the gap between political theory and performance studies. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is intended for advanced students and researchers in the social sciences.
Page Count:
748
Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190863471
ISBN-13:
9780190863470
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