Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiv, 368 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-1-349-46846-1 (print); 978-1-137-35060-2 (ebook)
"The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance." (Publisher description)
Reflecting on Political Performance: Introducing Critical Perspectives / Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius, 1
PART I. ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING CONTEXTS
1 Re-Imagining Political Subjectivities: Relationality, Reflexivity and Performance in Rural Brazil / Alex Flynn, 33
2 Performing Transformation: Cultivating a Paradigm of Education for Cooperation and Sustainability in a Brazilian Community / Dan Baron Cohen, 53
3 Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance Within Social Movements / Jeffrey Juris, 82
4 Resistant Acts in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Ananda Breed, 107
5 Embodiment, Intellect and Emotion: Thinking About Possible Impacts of Theatre for Development in Three Projects in Africa / Jane Plastow, 127
6 Governance, Theatricality, and Fantasma in Mafia Dance / Stavroula Pipyrou, 147
PART II. THEATRE AS PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL REFLECTION: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
7 Aesthetic, Ethics, and Engagement: Self-Cultivation as the Politics of Refugee Theatre / Jonas Tinius, 171
8 The Invisible Performance / The Invisible Masterpiece: Visibility, Concealment, and Commitment in Graffiti and Street Art / Rafael Schacter, 203
9 Whose Theatre is it Anyway? Ancient Chorality Versus Modern Drama / Clare Foster, 224
10 Theatre in the Arab World: Perspectives/Portraits from Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia / Rolf Hemke, 261
11 Pussy Riot's Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest and Juridical Metaperformance / Milo Rau, 279
12 Reinventing the Show Trial: Putin and Pussy Riot / Catherine Schuler, 286
13 Ethnography as Theatrical Practice: For a Verbatim Ethnography / Nicholas J. Long, 305
14 The Anthropologist as Ensemble Member: Anthropological Experiments With Theatre Makers / Caroline Gatt, 334
PART I. ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING CONTEXTS
1 Re-Imagining Political Subjectivities: Relationality, Reflexivity and Performance in Rural Brazil / Alex Flynn, 33
2 Performing Transformation: Cultivating a Paradigm of Education for Cooperation and Sustainability in a Brazilian Community / Dan Baron Cohen, 53
3 Embodying Protest: Culture and Performance Within Social Movements / Jeffrey Juris, 82
4 Resistant Acts in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Ananda Breed, 107
5 Embodiment, Intellect and Emotion: Thinking About Possible Impacts of Theatre for Development in Three Projects in Africa / Jane Plastow, 127
6 Governance, Theatricality, and Fantasma in Mafia Dance / Stavroula Pipyrou, 147
PART II. THEATRE AS PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL REFLECTION: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
7 Aesthetic, Ethics, and Engagement: Self-Cultivation as the Politics of Refugee Theatre / Jonas Tinius, 171
8 The Invisible Performance / The Invisible Masterpiece: Visibility, Concealment, and Commitment in Graffiti and Street Art / Rafael Schacter, 203
9 Whose Theatre is it Anyway? Ancient Chorality Versus Modern Drama / Clare Foster, 224
10 Theatre in the Arab World: Perspectives/Portraits from Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia / Rolf Hemke, 261
11 Pussy Riot's Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest and Juridical Metaperformance / Milo Rau, 279
12 Reinventing the Show Trial: Putin and Pussy Riot / Catherine Schuler, 286
13 Ethnography as Theatrical Practice: For a Verbatim Ethnography / Nicholas J. Long, 305
14 The Anthropologist as Ensemble Member: Anthropological Experiments With Theatre Makers / Caroline Gatt, 334
