The Politics of Cultural Practice : Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization - Softcover

Rustom Bharucha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0485006146 ISBN 13: 9780485006148

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Is equitable global culture exchange possible? Who determines this exchange and at whose expense? Can community and place survive the anonymity of the market and the patriarchy of the state? How can cultural practice provoke new modes of resistance in an age of globalization? "The Politics of Cultural Practice" defies the homogenizing and anti-democratic forces of globalization. Refuting the assumption that the West is everywhere, the book draws on the emergent cultures of sexual struggle in contemporary India to engage with the volatile global issues of intellectual property rights, cultural tourism and the marking of minorities on the basis of religion, caste, language, gender and sexuality. A dazzling analysis of life, politics and art in our globalizing world, "The Politics of Cultural Practice" demonstrates the power of the intercultural imaginary to radically shape the 21st century.

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6 1/8 x 9 1/4 trim. LC 99-085991

From the Inside Flap:

"Bharucha's critique of fundamentalism and globalisation employs theatre as the laboratory of inter- and intra-cultural practice. [It] highlights shifting alliances, roles, scenarios, and values -- in India, in the Third World, and in the very neighbourhood of each of us, the readers . . . A passionate affirmation of the values of interculturalism and secularism." -- Dragan Klaic, Director, Netherlands Theatre Institute

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0485006146
• ISBN 13: 9780485006148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258