Politicizing Creative Economy
Activism and a Hunger Called Theater
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2016
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08210-8 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08210-8 (ISBN)
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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 these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Bhutan 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 make street 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.
Dia Da Costa is an associate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Alberta and the author of Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India .
TitleContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Politicizing Creative Economy1. When Victims Become Entrepreneurs: From Sentimental Nationalism to Sentimental Capitalism2. Ordinary Violence and Creative EconomyPart II: Janam’s Ideology for Life3. An Ideology for Life?4. Virtually Speechless5. Laughing at the EnemyPart III: Budhan Theatre’s Creative Economy6. A Hunger Called Theater7. The Good Women of Chharanagar8. Another Creative Economy?ConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Dissident Feminisms |
Zusatzinfo | 15 black and white photographs |
Verlagsort | Baltimore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-08210-9 / 0252082109 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-08210-8 / 9780252082108 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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