Austerity and the Public Role of Drama

Performing Lives-in-Common

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:175
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030032593

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Victor Merriman is Professor of Critical Performance Studies at Edge Hill University, UK. He is author of Because We Are Poor: Irish Theatre in the 1990s (2011). He was a member of An Chomhairle Ealaíon/Arts Council of Ireland (1993-1998), and chaired the council’s Review of Theatre in Ireland (1995-1996).

Innehållsförteckning

Part I Neo-liberalism’s Political and Moral Economic Project: The End of Public Life?.- 1. Introduction: Austerity and Drama’s Public Role.- 2. The Public World: an idea under pressure.- 3. Drama in Public Worlds. -Part II Performance, the Academy, and the Politics of Austerity.- 4. Drama Worlds As Public Worlds.- 5. Confronting Corporate Neo-liberalism in Jim Nolan’s Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (2016).- 6. (Re)Public Worlds: Drama as Ethical Encounter.- 7. Beyond Deficit Culture: Conceptualising Collectives.- 8. Beyond Repair: A Critical Performance Manifesto.