Performing care : New perspectives on socially engaged performance / ed. by James Thompson, Amanda Stuart Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, Amanda Stuart, Editor.

Thompson, James, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Performing interrelatedness

1 Care ethics and improvisation

2 Towards an aesthetics of care

3 Performing tenderness

Part II Care-filled performance

4 Caring beyond illness

5 Convivial theatre

6 Road care

Part III Care deficits

7 Clean Break

8 Performing a museum of living memories

9 'Still Lives'

10 Verbatim practice as research with care- experienced young people

11 Health care as performance

12 Taking care of the laundry in care homes

13 Performing the 'aesthetics of care'

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9781526163967

1526163969

9781526146793

1526146797

OCLC:

1226247966