The Grammar of Politics and Performance

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-68406-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Interventions

This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other disciplines.

This book investigates the structural similarities and features of politics and performance, which are referred to here as ‘grammar’, a concept which also emphasizes the common communicational base or language of these fields. In each of the chapters included in this collection, key processes of both politics and performance are identified and analyzed, demonstrating the critical and indivisible links between the fields. The book also underlines that neither politics nor performance can take place without actors who perform and spectators who receive, evaluate and react to these actions. At the heart of the project is the ambition to bring about a paradigm change, such that politics cannot be analyzed seriously without a sophisticated understanding of its performance. All the chapters here display a concrete set of events, practices, and contexts within which politics and performance are inseparable elements.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in both International Relations and Performance Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rai, Shirin M

Reinelt, Janelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Performing Democracy: Roles, Stages, Scripts 3. Performance at the Crossroads of Citizenship 4. ‘I am an American’: Protesting Advertised ‘Americanness’ 5. Characterisation and Systemic Gender Violence: the Example of Laundry and the Figure of the Mother in Irish Culture 6. Theatricality vs. Bare Life: Performance as a Vernacular of Resistance 7. Becoming a Democratic Audience 8. Street Arts, Radical Democratic Citizenship, and a Grammar of Storytelling 9. Tahir Square, EC4M: the Occupy Movement and the Dramaturgy of Public Order 10. Temporality, Politics and Performance: Missing, Displaced, Disappeared 11. Performance and Politics: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament 12. Bringing the Audience Back In: Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the Efficacy of Public Hearings 13. Betrayal and What Follows: Rituals of Repentance, Healing and Anger in Response to the Church Sexual Abuse Scandal in Ireland 14. Closet Grammars of Intentional Deception: The Logic of Lies, State Security, and Homosexual Panic in Cold War Politics 15. Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
Janelle Reinelt is Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.