Performance in a Militarized Culture

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Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS List of figures List of contributors Preface: Performance in the Age of Intelligent Warfare Introduction: In the Absence of the Gun: Performing Militarization PART I Sites of Conflict 1 Mises-en-scène of Militarization: Decommissioning US Military Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone 2 Military Aid: The Spatial Performances and Performativity of Contemporary Refugee Camps 3 Sacred Children, Accursed Mothers: Performativities of Necropolitics and Mourning in Neoliberal Turkey 4 The Freedom Theatre and Cultural Resistance in Jenin, Palestine 5 Tactical Performance Across a Revolutionary Timeline PART II Militarized History and Memory 6 How to Do Things with Music Criticism: Performances of Victory in German Wagner Reception, 1918–1933 7 “Stop the War in Chicago Please”: Performative Protest and the Limits of Dissensus 8 Choreographies of Militarized Space: US Military Bases, Everyday Life, and Performance in Okinawa, Japan 9 Reviving the Tradition of the Battle Painting: The Militarization of Danish Culture PART III Performing the Soldier 10 Soldier Street Theater 11 No Easy Mission: Zero Dark Thirty and Gendered Heroism in the Post-Heroic Age 12 Going Outside the Wire: Service Members as Documentary Subjects in Black Watch and ReEntry 13 Challenging the Characterizations of Military Service: A Critical Comparison of British and American Counter-Recruitment Efforts 14 Strategic Simulation and the American Military Imaginary 15 Performing Flight: Test Pilots, Commercial Airlines, and the Cold War PART IV The Militarization of the Everyday 16 Picking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Firearm Ownership in the Long Civil Rights Movement 17 Failure to Adapt: Affect, Apathy, and Doomed Reenactments in American Theatre’s Militarized Dystopias 18 Weaponized Bureaucracy: Kill-Chains, Drones, and Tethers 19 Re-staging Surveillance Tragedy as Critical Resistance 20 The Time to Break (Silence): Disavowing the Affects of Militarization and Death through the Performance of Black Existence Afterword: Constitutive Performances: Human Rights in a Militarized Culture Index