Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

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.

List of contents

• Introduction by Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, Shirin Rai, and Michael Saward


• Part I: Performativity/Theatricality


• 1. Lisa Skwirblies - Colonial Theatricality


• 2. Ameet Parameswaran - Theatricality, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Beyond Theatre of Roots


• 3. Adrian Kear - Authenticity/Theatricality: World Spectatorship and the Drama of the Image


• 4. Kate Leader - Law, Presence to Absence: The Case of the Disappearing Defendant


• 5. Sophie Nield - Towards a Theatrical History of the Picket Line


• 6. Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga - Protest and Performativity


• 7. Jean-Pascal Daloz - Representation


• Part II: Identities


• 8. Katie Beswick - Class, Race, and Marginality: Informal Street Performances in the City


• 9. Carole Spary - Gender, Politics, Performance: Embodiment and Representation in Political Institutions


• 10. Edgaras Klivis - National Identity


• 11. Ioana Szeman - Performance and Citizenship: The Roma in Europe


• 12. Yana Meerzon - From Exile to Migration - Staging (the) Face of the Human Waste


• Part III: Sites


• 13. Emma Cox - Island Impasse: Refugee Detention and the Thickening Border


• 14. Kimberly Wedeven Segall - Media Sites: Political Revivals of American Muslim Women


• 15. Nirmal Puwar - The Force of the Somatic Norm: Women as Space Invaders in the UK Parliament


• 16. Matthew Watson - "The Market": Eighteenth-Century Insights into the Performance of Market Practices


• 17. Charlotte Heath-Kelly - Staging Memorialisation: Performing the War on Terror and Resilient Nationalism


• 18. Matt Davies - Urban Sites of the Everyday and the International: The Other City and the Aesthetic Subject


• 19. Anna Leander - The Politics of Neo-Liberal Rituals: Performing the Institutionalization of Liminality at Trade Fairs


• 20. Catherine Chinara Charrett - Empire: A Performative Approach to Imperial Frontiers and Formations in Palestine


• Part IV: Scripts


• 21. Desiree Lewis - Nativism: African Bodies and Photographic Performance


• 22. Willmar Sauter - Immersion


• 23. Stuart Elden - Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology


• 24. Erzsébet Strausz - Pedagogy: (Mis)performing the Contemporary University


• 25. Julia C. Strauss - Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy: The View from China and Beyond


• 26. John Uhr - Political Leadership: "Saving the Show"


• 27. Vicky Angelaki - Adaptation and Environment: Landscape, Community and Politics in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019)


• Part V: Body/Voice/Gesture


• 28. Sruti Bala - Hurling and Hailing: Scenes of Interruption and Interpellation


• 29. Alan Finlayson - Performing Political Ideologies


• 30. M.I. Franklin - Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics


• 31. Lisa Fitzpatrick - Eroticism, and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body


• 32. Bishnupriya Dutt - Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites


• 33. Bree Hadley - What's in a Name?: The Politics of Labelling in Disability Performance


• 34. Stephen Coleman - Taking a Position: Contemporary Dance and the Communication of Deep Political Feeling


• 35. Julia Peetz - The Body Politic and JFK's Bad Back: Questions of Embodiment in the Performance of Politics


• Part VI: Affect


• 36. Jordana Blejmar - Postmemory: Politics and Performance in Latin America


• 37. Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison - Performing Political Empathy


• 38. Narelle Warren - Care


• 39. Nobuko Anan - The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan


• 40. Emma Crewe and Nicholas Sarra - Constituency Performances: The "Heart" of Democratic Politics


• 41. James Brassett - Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit


• 42. Illan rua Wall - Atmospheres of Protest


• 43. Goran Petrovic Lotina - Performance and Populism: Choreographing Popular Forms of Collectivity

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.

Summary

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).

Product details

• Authors: Shirin M. (Professor of Politics and Internat Rai
• Assisted by: Milija Gluhovic (Editor), Gluhovic Milija (Editor), Silvija Jestrovic (Editor), Shirin M. Rai (Editor), Rai Shirin M. (Editor), Michael Saward (Editor), Saward Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2021
• EAN: 9780190863456
• ISBN: 978-0-19-086345-6
• No. of pages: 752
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Opinion Polling