Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism

MAURYA WICKSTROM Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions. Her articles have been published in TDR, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Annual, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her essay, Housed: The Irish State, Neoliberalism and Irish Traveller Theatre appeared in Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies, edited by Joseph Roach.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Making the Space of the New Present: Theatre in Palestine Efficacy, Sufferers, Camps and Redistribution: Theatre for Development and The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City Nomads: Irish Traveller Theatre, Housing, and Appearance Exhibited Bodies, Mr. Biopower, and the Inhuman: A Brief Continuation and a Coda Bibliography Index