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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

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