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Performance and the global city

Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world cities built by globalization and neoliberal capital.

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Group Author: Hopkins, D. J.; Solga, Kim.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Performance interventions
Subjects:
Globalization > Social aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Theater and society.
Theater and globalization.
Performing arts > Social aspects.
Theatre studies.
Dance & other performing arts.
Urban communities.
Performing Arts.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137367853
Summary: Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world cities built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230361676.
Carrier Form: 296 p. : 44 b&w, ill., 1.
ISBN: 9781137367853 :
1137367857 :
CLC: J80-02
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Borders, Performance, and the Global Urban Condition-- D.J. Hopkins with Kim Solga PART I: MOBILITIES AND (IN)CIVILITIES: THE GLOBAL URBAN BORDERLANDS 1. The Drama of Hospitality: Performance, Migration and Urban Renewal in Johannesburg-- Loren Kruger 2. Performing Survival in the Global City: Theatre ISOKO's The Monument-- Jennifer H. Capraru and Kim Solga 3. Eva / Nacha / Cristina and the Argentine Trinity of Local, National, and Global Urban Politics-- Jean Graham-Jones 4. China's Global Performatives: 'Better City, Better Life'-- Susan Bennett PART II: TRANSACTING BODIES / EMBODIED CURRENCIES: SUBJECTS AND CITIES 5. Losing Venice: Conversations in a Sinking City-- Nicolas Whybrow 6. The Urbanization and Transnational Circulation of the Peruvian Scissors Dance-- Jason Bush 7. Commuting Performance --> Working the Middle Ground-- Paul Rae and Simon Jones 8. Cultures of Commuting: The Mobile Negotiation of Space and Subjectivity on Delhi's Metro-- Melissa Butcher PART III: CITIZEN STAGES: ACTS OF DISSENT IN THE GLOBAL CITY 9. Distrito Federal: 'Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!'-- Ana Martinez 10. Sarajevo: A World City Under Siege-- Silvija Jestrovic 11. Cairo: My City, My Revolution-- Nesreen Hussein 12. Dramaturgies of Crisis and Performances of Citizenship: Syntagma Square, Athens-- Philip Hager Bibliography Index.

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