Politicizing creative economy : activism and a hunger called theater / Dia Da Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Da Costa, Dia, author.

Series:

Dissident feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jana Nāṭya Mañca.

Budhan Theatre (Firm).

Theater--Political aspects--India--History--21st century.

Theater.

Theater--Economic aspects--India--History--21st century.

Women in the theater--India.

Women in the theater.

Theater--Economic aspects.

Theater--Political aspects.

History.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Summary:

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into the global development, nationalist and leftist/progressive histories shaping these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Budhan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people. As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions makes activist theater a crucial site for considering what counts as creativity in the cultural politics of creative economy. Da Costa explores the precarious lives, livelihoods, and ideologies at the intersection of heritage projects, planning discourse, and activist performance. By analyzing the creators, performers, and activists involved -individuals at the margins of creative economy as well as society-Da Costa builds a provocative argument. Their creative economy practices may survive, challenge, and even reinforce the economies of death, displacement, and divisiveness used by the urban poor to survive. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Politicizing creative economy. When victims become entrepreneurs: from sentimental nationalism to sentimental capitalism

Ordinary violence and creative economy

Janam's ideology for life. An ideology for life?

Virtually speechless

Laughing at the enemy

Budhan Theatre's creative economy. A hunger called theater

The good women of Chharanagar

Another creative economy?

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Da Costa, Dia. author. Politicizing creative economy

ISBN:

9780252040603

0252040600

9780252082108

0252082109

OCLC:

946905364