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Staging Democracy : The Political Work of Live Performance / Emily Beausoleil.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Politics ; 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (X, 176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111032702
  • 9783111033013
  • 9783111032931
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Art of Democratic Engagement -- Chapter 2 Limits of the Literal, Promise of the Performative -- Chapter 3 Staging Protest: The Role of Anti-Apartheid Theatre in Democratizing South Africa -- Chapter 4 Staging Deliberation: Forum Theatre as ‘Living Laboratory’ in Canada -- Chapter 5 Staging Revision: Clowning Around with Captain Cook in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Chapter 6 Challenges, Risks and Limits of Politically-Engaged Performance -- Conclusion. Embodying a Democratic Ethos: Future Directions for Performance-as- Democratic Politics -- Bibliography -- Index – Staging Democracy
Summary: Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms. It shifts the focus from if and why marginalized difference should find entry into politics, to the practical question of how this is to be done. What explains those rare moments when marginalized voices break through in contemporary politics? And how might a closer look at the strategies and resources at play within such moments enhance how we understand and enact civic engagement?Political theory and practice have traditionally overlooked the performing arts as a site of civic politics, and yet marginalized communities continually turn to them to communicate, challenge, and catalyze change. This book brings vivid moments of creative practice from three continents together with performance studies and political scholarship to argue that artistic performance offers a potent form of democratic voice for claims from the margins. Across political contexts, democratic aims, and artistic genres, Staging Democracy shows how the very qualities that lead some to think of the arts as unclear, irrational, and irresponsible – and thus politically suspect – shape artistic performance’s distinct capacity to enact democratic engagement in conditions of deep difference and inequality.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Art of Democratic Engagement -- Chapter 2 Limits of the Literal, Promise of the Performative -- Chapter 3 Staging Protest: The Role of Anti-Apartheid Theatre in Democratizing South Africa -- Chapter 4 Staging Deliberation: Forum Theatre as ‘Living Laboratory’ in Canada -- Chapter 5 Staging Revision: Clowning Around with Captain Cook in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Chapter 6 Challenges, Risks and Limits of Politically-Engaged Performance -- Conclusion. Embodying a Democratic Ethos: Future Directions for Performance-as- Democratic Politics -- Bibliography -- Index – Staging Democracy

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Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms. It shifts the focus from if and why marginalized difference should find entry into politics, to the practical question of how this is to be done. What explains those rare moments when marginalized voices break through in contemporary politics? And how might a closer look at the strategies and resources at play within such moments enhance how we understand and enact civic engagement?Political theory and practice have traditionally overlooked the performing arts as a site of civic politics, and yet marginalized communities continually turn to them to communicate, challenge, and catalyze change. This book brings vivid moments of creative practice from three continents together with performance studies and political scholarship to argue that artistic performance offers a potent form of democratic voice for claims from the margins. Across political contexts, democratic aims, and artistic genres, Staging Democracy shows how the very qualities that lead some to think of the arts as unclear, irrational, and irresponsible – and thus politically suspect – shape artistic performance’s distinct capacity to enact democratic engagement in conditions of deep difference and inequality.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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