Performance in a militarized culture / edited by Sara Brady and Lindsey Mantoan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brady, Sara, editor.

Mantoan, Lindsey, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Performing arts.

Militarization.

Physical Description:

xv, 337 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Preface / Sarah Bay-Cheng

Performance in the age of intelligent warfare: Introduction / Sara Brady, Lindsey Mantoan

In the absence of the gun: performing militarization. Sites of conflict

Katherine Zien: Mises-en-scène of militarization: decommissioning US military infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone

Alexis Bushnell, Justine Nakase: Military aid: the spatial performances and performativity of contemporary refugee camps

Eylül Fidan Akinci: Sacred children, accursed mothers: performativities of necropolitics and mourning in neoliberal Turkey

Elin Nicholson: The freedom theatre and cultural resistance in Jenin, Palestine

Bart Pitchford: Tactical performance across a revolutionary timeline

Militarized history and memory. Áine Sheil: How to do things with music criticism: performances of victory in German Wagner reception, 1918-33

Susanne Shawyer: "Stop the war in Chicago please": performative protest and the limits of dissensus

Jessica Nakamura: Choreographies of militarized space: US military bases, everyday life, and performance in Okinawa, Japan

Solveig Gade: Reviving the tradition of the battle painting: the militarization of Danish culture

Performing the soldier. Tyler Boudreau: Soldier Street theatre

Lindsey Mantoan: No easy mission: Bin Laden, exceptionalism, and gendered heroism in the post-heroic age

Sarah Beck: Going outside the wire: service members as documentary subjects in Black Watch and Reentry

Cami Rowe: Challenging the characterizations of military service: a critical comparison of British and American counter-recruitment efforts

Michael St. Clair: Strategic simulation and the American military imaginary

Scott Magelssen: Performing flight: test pilots, commercial airlines, and the Cold War

The militarization of the everyday. Lindsay Livingston: Picking up the gun: spectacular performances of firearm ownership in the long civil rights movement

Emily Klein: Failure, future tense: adaptation, affect, and apathy in American theatre's militarized dystopias

Asher Warren: Weaponized bureaucracy: kill-chains, drones, and tethers

Jacqueline Viskup: Re-staging surveillance tragedy as critical resistance

Kashif Powell: The time to break (silence): disavowing the affects of militarization and death through the performance of Black existence

Afterword. Wendy S. Hesford: Constitutive performance: human rights in a militarized culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138690189

113869018X

9781138740808

1138740802

OCLC:

967196102

Publisher Number:

40027594201