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Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism: Thinking the Political Anew (Studies in International Performance)
Maurya Wickstrom
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Description for Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism: Thinking the Political Anew (Studies in International Performance)
Hardcover. This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development.
This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Studies in International Performance
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230247215
SKU
V9780230247215
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99-15
About Maurya Wickstrom
MAURYA WICKSTROM Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions. Her articles have been published in TDR, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Annual, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her essay, Housed: The ... Read more
Reviews for Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism: Thinking the Political Anew (Studies in International Performance)
'Generous in its international reach, daring in its theoretical inclusiveness, precise in its politically nuanced analysis, Maurya Wickstrom's work is that unusual thing: a book that recognises and illuminates what performance has to do with the disaffected and the disempowered.' - Alan Read, Professor of Theatre, King's College London '...Wickstrom offers a vibrant and innovative application of ... Read more