Performance in a Militarized Culture

Sara Brady is Associate Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Lindsey Mantoan is Assistant Professor at Linfield College.

• PrefaceSarah Bay-ChengPerformance in the Age of Intelligent WarfareIntroductionSara BradyLindsey Mantoan In the Absence of the Gun: Performing MilitarizationI. Sites of ConflictKatherine ZienMises-en-scène of Militarization: Decommissioning US Military Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone Alexis BushnellJustine NakaseMilitary Aid: The Spatial Performances and Performativity of Contemporary Refugee CampsEylül Fidan AkinciSacred Children, Accursed Mothers: Performativities of Necropolitics and Mourning in Neoliberal Turkey Elin Nicholson The Freedom Theatre and Cultural Resistance in Jenin, PalestineBart PitchfordTactical Performance Across a Revolutionary TimelineII. Militarized History and MemoryÁine SheilHow to Do Things with Music Criticism: Performances of Victory in German Wagner Reception, 1918–1933Susanne Shawyer"Stop the War in Chicago Please": Performative Protest and the Limits of Dissensus Jessica NakamuraChoreographies of Militarized Space: US Military Bases, Everyday Life, and Performance in Okinawa, Japan Solveig GadeReviving the Tradition of the Battle Painting: The Militarization of Danish Culture III. Performing the Soldiertyler boudreau Soldier Street TheatreLindsey MantoanNo Easy Mission: Zero Dark Thirty and Gendered Heroism in the Post-Heroic Age Sarah BeckGoing Outside the Wire: Service Members as Documentary Subjects in Black Watch and ReEntryCami RoweChallenging the Characterizations of Military Service: A Critical Comparison of British and American Counter-Recruitment EffortsMichael St. ClairStrategic Simulation and the American Military Imaginary Scott MagelssenPerforming Flight: Test Pilots, Commercial Airlines, and the Cold WarIV. The Militarization of the EverydayLindsay Adamson LivingstonPicking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Firearm Ownership in the Long Civil Rights Movement Emily KleinFailure to Adapt: Affect, Apathy, and Doomed Reenactments in American Theatre’s Militarized Dystopias Asher WarrenWeaponized Bureaucracy: Kill-Chains, Drones, and TethersJacqueline ViskupRe-staging Surveillance Tragedy as Critical ResistanceKashif Jerome Powell The Time to Break (Silence): Disavowing the Affects of Militarization and Death through the Performance of Black Existence AfterwordWendy S. HesfordConstitutive Performance: Human Rights in a Militarized Culture