The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

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Political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance. Theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts. Yet the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. Further, it is crucial to bring the concepts of theatre and performance deployed by other disciplines such as psychology, law, political anthropology, sociology among others into a wider, as well as deeper, interdisciplinary engagement. Embodying and fostering that engagement is at the heart of this new handbook. The Handbook brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance to map out the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. The authors--drawn from a wide range of disciplines--investigate the relationship between politics and performance to show that certain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines, and that they also share, to a large extent, a common communicational base and language. The volume is organized into seven thematic sections: the interdisciplinary theory of politics and performance; performativity and theatricality (protest, regulation, resistance, change, authority); identities (race, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, indigeneity); sites (states, borders, markets, law, religion); scripts (accountability, authority and legitimacy, security, ceremony, sustainability); body, voice, and gesture (representation, leadership, participation, rhetoric, disruption); and affect (media, care, love empathy, comedy, populism, memory). Cover Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Politics and/as Performance, Performance and/as Politics I Performativity and Theatricality 1. Colonial Theatricality 2. Theatricality, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Beyond Theater of Roots 3. Authenticity and Theatricality 4. Law, Presence to Absence: The Case of the Disappearing Defendant 5. Toward a Theatrical History of the Picket Line 6. Protest and Performativity 7. Representation II Identities 8. Class, Race, and Marginality 9. Gender, Politics, Performance 10. National Identity 11. Performance and Citizenship: The Roma in Europe 12. From Exile to Migration: Staging (the) Face of the Human Waste III Sites 13. Island Impasse: Refugee Detention and the Thickening Border 14. Media Sites: Political Revivals of American Muslim Women 15. The Force of the Somatic Norm 16. The Market 17. Staging Memorialization 18. Urban Sites of the Everyday and the International 19. The Politics of Neoliberal Rituals 20. Empire IV Scripts 21. Nativism: African Bodies and Photographic Performance 22. Immersion 23. Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology 24. Pedagogy: (Mis)Performing the Contemporary University 25. Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy 26. Political Leadership: “Saving the Show” 27. Adaptation and Environment V Body, Voice, Gesture 28. Interruption and Interpellation 29. Performing Political Ideologies 30. Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics 31. Eroticism and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body 32. Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites 33. What’s in a Name? The Politics of Labeling in Disability Performance 34. Taking a Position 35. The Body Politic and JFK’s Bad Back VI Affect 36. Postmemory: Politics and Performance in Latin America 37. Performing Political Empathy 38. Care 39. The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan 40. Constituency Performances: The Heart of Democratic Politics 41. Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit 41. Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit 42. Atmospheres of Protest 43. Performance and Populism Index