About this Book

Colonial theatricality / Lisa Skwirbliesc -- Theatricality, sovereignty, and resistance : beyond theater of roots / Ameet Parameswaran -- Authenticity and theatricality : world spectatorship and the drama of the image / Adrian Kear -- Law, presence to absence : the case of the disappearing defendant / Kate Leader -- Toward a theatrical history of the picket line / Sophie Nield -- Protest and performativity / Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga -- Representation / Jean-Pascal Daloz -- Class, race, and marginality : informal street performances in the city / Katie Beswick -- Gender, politics, performance : embodiment and representation in political institutions / Carole Spary -- National identity / Edgaras Klivis -- Performance and citizenship : the Roma in Europe / Ioana Szeman -- From exile to migration : staging (the) face of the human waste / Yana Meerzon -- Island impasse : refugee detention and the thickening border / Emma Cox -- Media sites : political revivals of American Muslim women / Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- The force of the somatic norm : women as space invaders in the UK Parliament / Nirmal Puwar -- The market : eighteenth-century insights into the performance of market practices / Matthew Watson -- Staging memorialization : performing the war on terror and resilient nationalism / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- Urban sites of the everyday and the international : the other city and the aesthetic subject / Matt Davies -- The politics of neoliberal rituals : performing the institutionalization of liminality at trade fairs / Anna Leander -- Empire : a performative approach to imperial frontiers and formations in Palestine / Catherine Chiniara Charrett -- Nativism : African bodies and photographic performance / Desiree Lewis -- Immersion / Willmar Sauter -- Ceremony, genealogy, political theology / Stuart Elden -- Pedagogy : (mis)performing the contemporary university / Erzsébet Strausz -- Scripts, authority, and legitimacy : the view from China and beyond / Julia C. Strauss -- Political leadership : "saving the show" / John Uhr -- Adaptation and environment : landscape, community, and politics in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019) / Vicky Angelaki -- Interruption and interpellation : leaving the theater in search of the theater / Sruti Bala -- Performing political ideologies / Alan Finlayson -- Music : women rewriting punk performance politics / M.I. Franklin -- Eroticism and the politics of representing the abused body / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Performing gestures at protests and other sites / Bishnupriya Dutt -- What's in a name? The politics of labeling in disability performance / Bree Hadley -- Taking a position : contemporary dance and the communication of deep political feeling / Stephen Coleman -- The body politic and JFK's bad back : questions of embodiment in the performance of politics / Julia Peetz -- Postmemory : politics and performance in Latin America / Jordana Blejmar -- Performing political empathy / Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison -- Care / Narelle Warren -- The nation as family : motherhood and love in Japan / Nobuko Anan -- Constituency performances : the heart of democratic politics / Emma Crewe and Nicholas Sarra -- Comedy and the performative politics of Brexit / James Brassett -- Atmospheres of protest / Illan rua Wall -- Performance and populism : choreographing popular forms of collectivity / Goran Petrović Lotina.