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1 online resource |
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Anthropology, change and development.
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PART I: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING CONTEXTS -- 1.1 Interventions -- Re-Imagining Political Subjectivities: Relationality, Reflexivity And Performance In Rural Brazil; Alex Flynn -- Performing Transformation: Cultivating A Paradigm Of Education For Cooperation And Sustainability In A Brazilian Community; Dan Baron Cohen -- Embodying Protest: Culture And Performance Within Social Movements; Jeffrey Juris -- 1.2 Development And Governance -- Resistant Acts In Post-Genocide Rwanda; Ananda Breed -- Embodiment, Intellect And Emotion: Thinking About Possible Impacts Of Theatre For Development In Three Projects In Africa; Jane Plastow -- Governance, Theatricality, And Fantasma In Mafia Dance; Stavroula Pipyrou -- PART II: THEATRE AS PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL REFLECTION -- CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2.1 Theatre And Tradition: Politics And Aesthetics -- Ethical Self-Cultivation As The Politics Of Engaged Theatre: How Theatre Engages Refugee Politics; Jonas Tinius -- The Invisible Performance/ The Invisible Masterpiece: Visibility, Concealment, And Commitment In Graffiti And Street Art; Rafael Schacter -- Whose Theatre Is It Anyway? Ancient Chorality Versus Modern Drama; Clare Foster -- 2.2 Political Theatricality -- Pussy Riot's Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest And Juridical Metaperformance; Milo Rau -- Reinventing The Show Trial: Putin And Pussy Riot; Catherine Schuler -- Theatre In The Arab World : Perspectives/Portraits From Lebanon, Syria, And Tunisia; Rolf Hemke -- 2.3 Theatre As Ethnographic Method -- Ethnography As Theatrical Practice -- For A Verbatim Ethnography; Nick Long -- The Anthropologist As Ensemble Member: Anthropological Experiments With Theatre Makers; Caroline Gatt |
| Summary |
From Pussy Riot and the Arab Spring to Italian mafia dance, this collection provides an interdisciplinary analysis of relational reflexivity in political performance. By putting anthropological theory into dialogue with international development scholarship and artistic and activist practices, this book highlights how aesthetics and politics interrelate in precarious spheres of social life. The contributors of this innovative interdisciplinary volume raise questions about the transformative potential of participating in and reflecting upon political performances both as individual and as collectives. They also argue that such processes provide a rich field and new pathways for anthropological explorations of peoples' own reflections on humanity, sociality, change, and aspiration. Reflecting on political transformations through performance puts centre stage the ethical dimensions of cultural politics and how we enact political subjectivity |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Politics and culture.
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Art -- Political aspects.
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Theater -- Political aspects
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political art.
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Anthropology.
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Development studies.
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Theatre studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Art -- Political aspects
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Politics and culture
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Theater -- Political aspects
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Anthropology.
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Development studies.
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Theatre studies.
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Society.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Flynn, Alex, editor
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Tinius, Jonas, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137350602 |
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1137350601 |
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