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Informationen zum Autor James R. Ball III is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and Director of the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Texas A&M University, USA. He studies the performance of diplomacy, and is the author of Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations (2020). Related work has been published in TDR , The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism , e -Misférica , and elsewhere. Anja Hartl is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is the author of Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today and editor of the Methuen Drama Student Edition of The Threepenny Opera . Her research focuses on contemporary British theatre, Victorian fiction and adaptation studies. She co-edits the Methuen Drama Agitations Series. William C. Boles holds the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Chair of English at Rollins College, USA. He edited Theater in a Post-Truth World: Text, Performance, and Politics and After In-Yer-Face: Remnants of a Theatrical Revolution and authored The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall , Understanding David Henry Hwang and Mike Bartlett. Zusammenfassung The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists. Treating theatre as both an art form and a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the embodied dimensions of governance, the stagecraft of revolution, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms. It brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a play about global conflict, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postdiplomatic Theatre, James R. Ball III (Texas A&M University, USA) 1. (En)Acting the Republic: The 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland, Áine Josephine Tyrrell (Kings College London, UK) 2. An "Indian Princess," a King and a Queen, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties at the 1939 Royal Visit, Christiana Molldrem Harkulich (Eastern Illinois University, USA) 3. The President’s Yellow Batakari: Performance and the Sartorial in Ghanaian Politics, David Afriyie Donkor (Texas A&M University, USA) 4. Windrush Strikes Back: "Rivers of Blood," Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy, Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University, USA) 5. Organ Failure: Medicalized Torture During the Iraq War, Warren Kluber (Columbia University, USA) 6. Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines, Adam Kielman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 7. The President Makes a Play: Putin and Erdogan’s Sporting Diplomacy, Sean Bartley (Northwestern State University, USA) and Jared Strange (University of Maryland, USA) 8. Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking Bolivar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance, Angela Marino (University of California, Berk...
