Performance and the global city
By: edited by D.J. Hopkins and Kim Solga
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780230361676
Subjects: Theater and globalization; Theater and society; Performing arts; Social aspects; Urban ecology (Sociology); PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Description: "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. Featuring work by artists as well as scholars, written from multiple disciplinary perspectives, and including dozens of photographs as well as a photo essay by Nicholas Whybrow, Performance and the Global City will appeal to readers interested in urban studies, theatre and performance, geography, sociology, and globalization studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction: Borders, Performance, and the Global Urban Condition; D.J. Hopkins with Kim Solga; title: PART I: MOBILITIES AND (IN)CIVILITIES: THE GLOBAL URBAN BORDERLANDS; title: 1. The Drama of Hospitality: Performance, Migration and Urban Renewal in Johannesburg; Loren Kruger; title: 2. Performing Survival in the Global City: Theatre ISÓKO's The Monument; Jennifer H. Capraru and Kim Solga; title: 3. Eva / Nacha / Cristina and the Argentine Trinity of Local, National, and Global Urban Politics; Jean Graham-Jones; title: 4. China's Global Performatives: 'Better City, Better Life'; Susan Bennett; title: PART II: TRANSACTING BODIES / EMBODIED CURRENCIES: SUBJECTS AND CITIES; title: 5. Losing Venice: Conversations in a Sinking City; Nicolas Whybrow; title: 6. The Urbanization and Transnational Circulation of the Peruvian Scissors Dance; Jason Bush; title: 7. Commuting Performance ? Working the Middle Ground; Paul Rae and Simon Jones; title: 8. Cultures of Commuting: The Mobile Negotiation of Space and Subjectivity on Delhi's Metro; Melissa Butcher; title: PART III: CITIZEN STAGES: ACTS OF DISSENT IN THE GLOBAL CITY; title: 9. Distrito Federal: 'Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!'; Ana Martinez; title: 10. Sarajevo: A World City Under Siege; Silvija Jestrovic; title: 11. Cairo: My City, My Revolution; Nesreen Hussein; title: 12. Dramaturgies of Crisis and Performances of Citizenship: Syntagma Square, Athens; Philip Hager; title: Bibliography; title: Index.