Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland

Towards a New Interculturalism
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-46972-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5056 g

Reihe: Contemporary Performance InterActions

This book investigates Ireland’s
translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and
situates the wider implications of this ‘new interculturalism’ for theatre and
performance studies at large.

Offering the first full-length, post-1990s
study of the effect of large-scale immigration and interculturalism as social
policy on Irish theatre and performance, McIvor argues that inward-migration
changes most of what can be assumed about Irish theatre and performance and its
relationship to national identity. By using case studies that include theatre,
dance, photography, and activist actions, this book works through major debates
over aesthetic interculturalism in theatre and performance studies post-1970s
and analyses Irish social interculturalism in a contemporary European social
and cultural policy context. Drawing
together the work of professional and community practitioners who frequently
identify as both artists and activists, Migration
and Performance in Contemporary Ireland proposes a new paradigm for the study of
Irish theatre and performance while contributing to the wider investigation of
migration and performance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIvor, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Towards a New Interculturalism?.- Part I. Intercultural Production Infrastructures.- Chapter 1. Playboy of the Western World and Old/New Interculturalisms.- Chapter 2. Casting, Translation and Adaptation as Interculturalism-from-Below.- Part II. Producing the Intercultural Subject.- Chapter 3. Performing Historical Duty.- Chapter 4. Labour(ed) Relations: Migrant Women and Performative Labour.- Part III. Intercultural Publics.- Chapter 5. Community Theatre as Active Citizenship.- Chapter 6. Essences of Social Change.- Conclusion. The “New Irish”?.

Über Autor(innen)

Charlotte McIvor is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway in the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. She is the co-editor of Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (with Matthew Spangler) and Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice (with Siobhán O’Gorman). She has published in Modern Drama, Irish University Review, Irish Studies Review and multiple edited volumes on contemporary theatre and performance.