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Title Performance in a militarized culture / [edited by] Sara Brady and Lindsey Mantoan
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017

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Series Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
Contents Preface / Sarah Bay-Cheng -- Performance in the age of intelligent warfare: Introduction / Sara Brady, Lindsey Mantoan -- In the absence of the gun: performing militarization. Sites of conflict -- Katherine Zien: Mises-en-scène of militarization: decommissioning US military infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone -- Alexis Bushnell, Justine Nakase: Military aid: the spatial performances and performativity of contemporary refugee camps -- Eylül Fidan Akinci: Sacred children, accursed mothers: performativities of necropolitics and mourning in neoliberal Turkey -- Elin Nicholson: The freedom theatre and cultural resistance in Jenin, Palestine -- Bart Pitchford: Tactical performance across a revolutionary timeline -- Militarized history and memory. Áine Sheil: How to do things with music criticism: performances of victory in German Wagner reception, 1918-33 -- Susanne Shawyer: "Stop the war in Chicago please": performative protest and the limits of dissensus -- Jessica Nakamura: Choreographies of militarized space: US military bases, everyday life, and performance in Okinawa, Japan -- Solveig Gade: Reviving the tradition of the battle painting: the militarization of Danish culture -- Performing the soldier. Tyler Boudreau: Soldier Street theatre -- Lindsey Mantoan: No easy mission: Bin Laden, exceptionalism, and gendered heroism in the post-heroic age -- Sarah Beck: Going outside the wire: service members as documentary subjects in Black Watch and Reentry -- Cami Rowe: Challenging the characterizations of military service: a critical comparison of British and American counter-recruitment efforts -- Michael St. Clair: Strategic simulation and the American military imaginary -- Scott Magelssen: Performing flight: test pilots, commercial airlines, and the Cold War -- The militarization of the everyday. Lindsay Livingston: Picking up the gun: spectacular performances of firearm ownership in the long civil rights movement -- Emily Klein: Failure, future tense: adaptation, affect, and apathy in American theatre's militarized dystopias -- Asher Warren: Weaponized bureaucracy: kill-chains, drones, and tethers -- Jacqueline Viskup: Re-staging surveillance tragedy as critical resistance -- Kashif Powell: The time to break (silence): disavowing the affects of militarization and death through the performance of Black existence -- Afterword. Wendy S. Hesford: Constitutive performance: human rights in a militarized culture
Notes Print version record
Subject Performing arts -- Social aspects
Militarization.
Militarization
Performing arts -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Brady, Sara, editor
Mantoan, Lindsey, editor
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