This collection of essays on democracy in performance is timely. It comes at a time when the very basis of the notion of democracy has been evacuated from its original premise onto the will of the individual by political systems and trans-national enterprises. With these essays, traces are made at the intersection of the global and the local, between modernity and tradition, of performance practices that are affected, troubled, or defined by the pull of competing political discourses. Performances of resistance against ...
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This collection of essays on democracy in performance is timely. It comes at a time when the very basis of the notion of democracy has been evacuated from its original premise onto the will of the individual by political systems and trans-national enterprises. With these essays, traces are made at the intersection of the global and the local, between modernity and tradition, of performance practices that are affected, troubled, or defined by the pull of competing political discourses. Performances of resistance against global forces, or other hegemonic regimes (in terms of gender, class, or race) are highlighted and analyzed. The contributions emerged from conferences organized by the Indian Society for Theatre Research, and its progenitor (in 2003), the International Federation for Theatre Research. For the local to envision the global is to seek out points of connection on a trans-national basis. The majority of these essays deal with Asian examples of performance. Contents include:
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