Precariousness and the performances of welfare. (2020)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Precariousness and the performances of welfare. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Precariousness and the performances of welfare
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Jenny Hughes.
- Editors:
- Hughes, Jenny, 1971-
- Contents:
- Introduction - Theatre and the social factory Jenny Hughes 1. Performing to understand: cultural wealth, precarity, and shelter-dwelling youth Kathleen Gallagher and Dirk J. Rodricks 2. ‘Think differently, get creative’: producing precarity in India’s corporate theater culture industry Sarah Saddler 3. Birmingham Rep, youth and community, and the products and possibilities of precarity Claire Cochrane 4. Subverting ableist discourses as an exercise in precarity: a Zimbabwean case study Kennedy C. Chinyowa and Nehemiah Chivandikwa 5. Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance Sarah Bartley 6. Notes on a theatre commons: Common Wealth’s The Deal Versus the People (2015) Jenny Hughes 7. Finding a concrete utopia in the dystopia of a ‘sub-city’ Selina Busby 8. Rethinking fragile landscapes during the Greek crisis: precarious aesthetics and methodologies in Athenian dance performances Natalie Zervou 9. Relocating precarity and resiliency within Montreal: the Artists’ Bloc of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre Koby Rogers Hall, Manuel Salamanca and with contributions from Artists’ Bloc collective members 10. Teatro Valle Occupato: protesting, occupying and making art in contemporary Italy Alice Borchi 11. Compassion is dissent The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home 12. In the Limelight: enthusiasm, commitment and need Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta 13. The resilience web Erin Walcon 14. Precariousness and groundedness in arts inIntroduction - Theatre and the social factory Jenny Hughes 1. Performing to understand: cultural wealth, precarity, and shelter-dwelling youth Kathleen Gallagher and Dirk J. Rodricks 2. ‘Think differently, get creative’: producing precarity in India’s corporate theater culture industry Sarah Saddler 3. Birmingham Rep, youth and community, and the products and possibilities of precarity Claire Cochrane 4. Subverting ableist discourses as an exercise in precarity: a Zimbabwean case study Kennedy C. Chinyowa and Nehemiah Chivandikwa 5. Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance Sarah Bartley 6. Notes on a theatre commons: Common Wealth’s The Deal Versus the People (2015) Jenny Hughes 7. Finding a concrete utopia in the dystopia of a ‘sub-city’ Selina Busby 8. Rethinking fragile landscapes during the Greek crisis: precarious aesthetics and methodologies in Athenian dance performances Natalie Zervou 9. Relocating precarity and resiliency within Montreal: the Artists’ Bloc of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre Koby Rogers Hall, Manuel Salamanca and with contributions from Artists’ Bloc collective members 10. Teatro Valle Occupato: protesting, occupying and making art in contemporary Italy Alice Borchi 11. Compassion is dissent The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home 12. In the Limelight: enthusiasm, commitment and need Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta 13. The resilience web Erin Walcon 14. Precariousness and groundedness in arts in mental health Elanor Stannage 15. ‘Days in the Bay’: a short performance devised by the Tiger’s Bay Men’s Group and inspired by the changing streetscape of North Belfast David Grant 16. On ‘A Piece for Two (Lovers)’ – an unrehearsed performance piece Robert Vesty and Antonio de la Fe 17. A people’s theatre for Brighton – an interview with Naomi Alexander Naomi Alexander and Jenny Hughes … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 306.4848
Theater and society
Performing arts -- Social aspects
Theater -- Production and direction - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780429753930
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780429753947
9780429753923
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