Politicizing Creative Economy
Dia da Costa
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Description for Politicizing Creative Economy
hardcover. Series: Dissident Feminisms. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: AN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into the global development, nationalist and leftist/progressive histories shaping these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Budhan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people.
As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make activist theater a ... Read more
Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into the global development, nationalist and leftist/progressive histories shaping these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Budhan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people.
As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make activist theater a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Dissident Feminisms
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040603
SKU
V9780252040603
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About Dia da Costa
Dia Da Costa is an associate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Alberta and the author of Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India.
Reviews for Politicizing Creative Economy
"Da Costa provides powerful analytic tools to interrogate the ways activists such as Bird Song work within and against the complicities and potentialities of neoliberal creative economy discourse and practice. . . . A powerful feminist intervention."
Antipode "Herein lies the rich potential for scholars in theatre and performance to turn to this book as a way of reimagining our own ... Read more
Antipode "Herein lies the rich potential for scholars in theatre and performance to turn to this book as a way of reimagining our own ... Read more