The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

Shirin M Rai

ISBN 10: 0190863455 / ISBN 13: 9780190863456

Published by Oxford University Press Mär 2021, 2021

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Neuware - While political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance, and theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts, the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance--drawing on experts across the fields of literature, law, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and media and communiction, as well as politics and theatre and performance--to map out and deepen the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. Organized into seven thematic sections, the volume investigates the relationship between politics and performance to show that certain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines--and that to a large extent they also share a common communicational base and language.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Mär 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190863455
• ISBN 13: 9780190863456
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 251W x 183H x 53D millimeters 251 millimeters width by 183 millimeters height by 53 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1383 grams

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Synopsis

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).

About the Author

Shirin M. Rai is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Milija Gluhovic is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick.

Silvija Jestrovic is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick.

Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.