Performance, Resistance and Refugees -

Performance, Resistance and Refugees

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-69669-6 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security, and refugee resistance.
This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.

Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children’s theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, titled Off Stage, employs performance as a lens to analyse the wider field of refugee politics, including the relationship between forced migrants and the forced displacement of First Nations peoples that underpins the settler-colonial state, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, the role of the canon in art history and the spectacle of bordering practices. In doing so, it illuminates the strategic performativity—and nonperformativity—of the law, philosophy, the state and the academy more broadly in the exclusion and control of refugees.

Taken together, the chapters in this volume draw on, and contribute to, a wide range of disciplines including theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, border studies and forced migration studies, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in all four fields.

Suzanne Little is Senior Lecturer and the Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Samid Suliman is Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. Caroline Wake is Senior Lecturer of Theatre and Performance at the University of NSW, Australia.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors' Biographies

Introduction: Performance, Refuge and Resistance

Suzanne Little, Samid Suliman and Caroline Wake

On Stage

Chapter 1 Refugees, Visual Culture and Theatre: Reinscriptions and Contestations

Suzanne Little

Chapter 2 The Breath of Another: Mediated Testimony in the Play Manus

Anna Szörényi

Chapter 3 Eschewing Precarity in Spoken Word Poetry: Towards the Performance of Agency in Refugee Storytelling

Sukhmani Khorana

Chapter 4 Manus Island and Kurdistan in Juxtaposition: Reading Remain and Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time Beyond the Story of the Manus Prison

Zhila Gholami

Chapter 5 Offshore Onstage: Refugee Policies, Media Ecologies and Migrant Dramaturgies in Australia, 2001–2021

Caroline Wake

Off Stage

Chapter 6 Trouble on the Horizon

Suvendrini Perera

Chapter 7 The Anxiety of Cosmopolitanism in Political Philosophy

Nikos Papastergiadis

Chapter 8 How to Appear? Writing Art History in Australia after 1973

Verónica Tello

Chapter 9 Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law

Maria Giannacopoulos

Chapter 10 Putting on a Show: Considering the Dark Matter of Australian Border Theatre

Samid Suliman

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-69669-X / 036769669X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-69669-6 / 9780367696696
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