Performing Statecraft

James R. Ball III is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and Director of the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Texas A&M University, USA. He studies the performance of diplomacy, and is the author of Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations (2020). Related work has been published in TDR, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, e-Misférica, and elsewhere.

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Introduction: Postdiplomatic Theatre, James R. Ball III (Texas A&M University, USA)

1. (En)Acting the Republic: The 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland, Áine Josephine Tyrrell (Kings College London, UK)

2. An "Indian Princess," a King and a Queen, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties at the 1939 Royal Visit, Christiana Molldrem Harkulich (Eastern Illinois University, USA)

3. The President’s Yellow Batakari: Performance and the Sartorial in Ghanaian Politics, David Afriyie Donkor (Texas A&M University, USA)

4. Windrush Strikes Back: "Rivers of Blood," Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy, Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University, USA)

5. Organ Failure: Medicalized Torture During the Iraq War, Warren Kluber (Columbia University, USA)

6. Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines, Adam Kielman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

7. The President Makes a Play: Putin and Erdogan’s Sporting Diplomacy, Sean Bartley (Northwestern State University, USA) and Jared Strange (University of Maryland, USA)

8. Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking Bolivar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance, Angela Marino (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Afterword: The Future of Dissensus: Performance Postdiplomatic Postdemocracy, Tony Perucci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

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