Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism Thinking the Political Anew

by Wickstrom, Maurya

• ISBN13: 9780230247215
• ISBN10: 0230247210
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This bookranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development.

Author Biography

Maurya Wickstrom is Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions. Her articles have been published in TDR, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Annual, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her essay, Housed: The Irish State, Neoliberalism and Irish Traveller Theatre, appeared in Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies, edited by Joseph Roach.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Series Editors' Preface	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Groundwork: neoliberalism and human rights	p. 5
The chapters	p. 10
Conclusion	p. 29
Making the Space of the New Present: Theatre in Palestine	p. 31
Al Rowwad	p. 49
Inad Theatre	p. 61
Al Rowwad in Vermont	p. 71
Ashtar	p. 76
Efficacy, Sufferers, Camps and Redistribution: Theatre for Development and The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City	p. 88
Prologue	p. 88
Theatre for Development - foundations	p. 90
The divide implemented (I)	p. 93
The divide implemented (II)	p. 104
Suffering	p. 111
Humanitarian space, MSF and Rony Brauman	p. 115
Redistribution	p. 125
Nomads: Irish Traveller Theatre, Housing and Appearance	p. 131
Locating my research: a prologue	p. 132
The frame: sedentarism/nomadism	p. 134
Housing the Travellers	p. 140
Theatre as housing: Ireland's inclusive neoliberalism and the new Irish subject	p. 146
Appearance	p. 162
Conclusion	p. 170
Exhibited Bodies, Mr Biopower and the Inhuman: A Brief Continuation and a Coda	p. 172
Bodies: The Exhibition	p. 172
On the other hand: Von Hagens	p. 180
Coda	p. 187
Notes	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 196
Index	p. 206
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