Performance, feminism and affect in neoliberal times. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, Candice Amich, editors.
• Editors: Diamond, Elin; Varney, Denise; Amich, Candice, 1978-
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Affect, Performance, and the Neoliberal State; Chapter 2: The Affective Performance of State Love; Works Cited; Chapter 3: 'Not Now, Not Ever': Julia Gillard and the Performative Power of Affect; Neoliberalism in Australia; Making a Biopolitical Subject; Julia and the Misogyny Speech: Mobilizing Affect; Feminist Resistance; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Performing Sovereignty Against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception. Chapter 9: Protesting Violence: Feminist Performance Activism in Contemporary IndiaJanam and Maya Rao: Feminist and Left Theatre Movements; Activist Performance Histories; The Making of a Feminist Theatre; Depicting Nirbhaya: The Play and Its Response; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 10: My Cunt, My Rules! Feminist Sextremist Activism in Neoliberal Europe; Neoliberal Islamophobia; Femen's Activist Objectives; Direct Action; Trained to Shout; Paris, 22 April 2014; Media Attention; Gothenburg, 19 October 2014; European Racism; Revolution Anyone?; Never Again; Works Cited. Part III: Global SpectaclesChapter 11: Mapping Abramović, from Affect to Emotion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12: Virtuosity: Dance, Entrepreneurialism, and Nostalgia in Stage Irish Performance; Unhomely Nostalgia; Dancing Home in the Nation State; Mobile Homes; Comely Maidens and Oiled Pectorals; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 13: Neoliberal Postfeminism, Neo-burlesque, and the Politics of Affect in the Performances of Moira Finucane; Neoliberal Postfeminism and the Politics of Neo-burlesque; Moira Finucane's Affective Burlesque Performances; The Political Potential of Affect. Performing Women's Sovereignty Through 'Rawness': The Convergence at CanberraIndigenous and Non-indigenous Paradigms of Sovereignty; Neoliberalism and State-of-Emergency Governance; Staging Sovereignty Against Jurisprudential Death in the Australian Theatre; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan: Yanagi Miwa's Elevator Girl; Neoliberalism in Japan; Elevator Girl; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Nisti Stêrk's Affective Spaces in For Sweden -- With the Times (För Sverige i tiden!); Swedish Neoliberalism. The Politics of Cultural Diversity in PracticeDramaturgy and Content in For Sweden - With the Times!; The School Scene; Fundamental Ideas and Affective Possibilities; Works Cited; Part II: Violence and Performance Activism; Chapter 7: Raging On: The Politics of Violence in the Work of Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 8: The Limits of Witness: Regina José Galindo and Neoliberalism's Gendered Economies of Violence; Truth Commissions: Testimony after Testimonio; Staging Testimony; Performing Precarity; Resistance and Affect; Notes; Works Cited.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.082; Social sciences; Feminism and the arts; Women in the performing arts; Feminism and theater; Performance art; Arts and society; Neoliberalism; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General; Arts and society; Feminism and theater; Neoliberalism; Performance art; Performing Arts -- General; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Social Science -- Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Dance & other performing arts; Theatre studies; Feminism & feminist theory; Cultural studies; Sociology; Performing arts; Theater; Feminist theory; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137598103; 1137598107
• Related ISBNs: 1137598093; 9781137598097
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