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Colonial Theatricality / Lisa Skwirbliesc -- Theatricality, Sovereignty, And Resistance: Beyond Theater Of Roots / Ameet Parameswaran -- Authenticity And Theatricality: World Spectatorship And The Drama Of The Image / Adrian Kear -- Law, Presence To Absence: The Case Of The Disappearing Defendant / Kate Leader -- Toward A Theatrical History Of The Picket Line / Sophie Nield -- Protest And Performativity / Jorge Cadena-roa And Cristina Puga -- Representation / Jean-pascal Daloz -- Class, Race, And Marginality: Informal Street Performances In The City / Katie Beswick -- Gender, Politics, Performance: Embodiment And Representation In Political Institutions / Carole Spary -- National Identity / Edgaras Klivis -- Performance And Citizenship: The Roma In Europe / Ioana Szeman -- From Exile To Migration: Staging (the) Face Of The Human Waste / Yana Meerzon -- Island Impasse: Refugee Detention And The Thickening Border / Emma Cox -- Media Sites: Political Revivals Of American Muslim Women / Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- The Force Of The Somatic Norm: Women As Space Invaders In The Uk Parliament / Nirmal Puwar -- The Market: Eighteenth-century Insights Into The Performance Of Market Practices / Matthew Watson -- Staging Memorialization: Performing The War On Terror And Resilient Nationalism / Charlotte Heath-kelly -- Urban Sites Of The Everyday And The International: The Other City And The Aesthetic Subject / Matt Davies -- The Politics Of Neoliberal Rituals: Performing The Institutionalization Of Liminality At Trade Fairs / Anna Leander -- Empire: A Performative Approach To Imperial Frontiers And Formations In Palestine / Catherine Chiniara Charrett -- Nativism: African Bodies And Photographic Performance / Desiree Lewis -- Immersion / Willmar Sauter -- Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology / Stuart Elden -- Pedagogy: (mis)performing The Contemporary University / Erzsébet Strausz -- Scripts, Authority, And Legitimacy: The View From China And Beyond / Julia C. Strauss -- Pol
This volume investigates the intersection of political theory and performance studies to determine how theatricality, embodiment, and staging shape political power and institutional legitimacy. The editors, a multidisciplinary team of scholars including Milija Gluhovic and Shirin M. Rai, compile a series of essays that analyze how political actors, institutions, and marginalized groups utilize performative strategies to exert influence, resist authority, or construct national and social identities. By bridging the gap between the study of political systems and the analysis of aesthetic performance, the text establishes a framework for understanding politics as a series of staged practices.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars and students of political science and performance studies frequently cite this work as a comprehensive reference for understanding the performative dimensions of governance and resistance. Readers often note the academic density of the prose, which requires a foundational understanding of both political theory and performance studies to fully synthesize the arguments presented.
Page Count:
592
Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0190863463
ISBN-13:
9780190863463