Theatre and Performance in the Neoliberal University

Kim Solga is Professor of English and Writing Studies at Western University, Canada.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: "Theatre & Performance, Crisis & Survival"

Kim Solga

SECTION ONE: Face the Steamroller - Essays



"Power and privilege in neoliberal perspective: the Laboratory for global performance and politics at Georgetown university"
Asif Majid


"Theatre training and performance practice in neoliberal Zimbabwean universities: survival strategies and frustrations"
Nkululeko Sibanda


"Television as theatre text in the austere academy: a curricular exploration"
Hillary Miller


"Faces between numbers: re-imagining theatre and performance as instruments of critical data studies within a liberal arts education"
Richard C. Windeyer


"Towards a concept of inefficiency in performance and dialogue practice"
Linda Taylor


"Masihambisane [Let’s walk]: walking the city as an interdisciplinary pedagogical experiment in Durban, South Africa"
Miranda Young-Jahangeer and Bridget Horner

SECTION TWO: Trust the Work – Case Studies


"Living the interdiscipline: conceiving, developing, managing, and learning from a large-scale, multidisciplinary, scenario-based project supporting police de-escalation training in Ontario"
Natalie Alvarez, interviewed by Kim Solga


"Hul’q’umi’num’ language heroes: a successful collaboration between Elders, community organisations, and Canadian West Coast universities"
Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta


"Celebratory theatre: a response to neoliberalism in the arts"
Yasmine Kandil and Hannah te Bokkel


"The performative foreign language classroom as a site of creative disruption"
Anna Santucci


"Reimagining applied practices: a case study on the potential partnership between applied practices and education for sustainable development"
Alex Cahill and Paul Warwick


"Exacting collaboration: performance as pedagogy in interdisciplinary contexts"
Zachary A. Dorsey


"Working at the margins: theatre, social science and radical political engagement"
Julia Gray and Pia Kontos


"Devilish deals: art, research, and activism with/in the institution"
Oona Hatton


"The Verbatim Formula: caring for care leavers in the neoliberal university"
Maggie Inchley, Sadhvi Dar, Susmita Pujara and Sylvan Baker


"Emancipated spectators in the theatre history classroom"
Susanne Shawyer


"Surviving, but not thriving: the politics of care and the experience of motherhood in academia"
Katharine Low and Diana Damian Martin


"Writing wrongs: disruptive feminist teaching within the (anxious) ivory tower"
Jayme Kilburn

Afterword: A Care Manifesto


"Tactics: practical and imagined"

Diana Damian Martin, Sharon Green, Clara Nizard, Theron Schmidt, Max Schulman and Kim Solga