Performing care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- ASTU2
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.7765/9781526146816
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526146816
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Performing Care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance’ represents a sustained, international interrogation of the relationship between performance and care. Co-edited equitably by Amanda Stuart-Fisher and James Thompson, this 109,000-word collection of 13 commissioned essays examines the ethico-political dimension of care by drawing on insights deriving from performance practice and theory. Each essay was selected by both editors to interrogate a key aspect of care, from care deficits in the criminal justice system to the aesthetics of caring in adult social care and nursing, while ensuring that the volume as a whole engaged in a range of interdisciplinary performance practices and international perspectives. Stuart-Fisher’s 8,200-word introduction (pp. 1–17) frames the volume around theories of care ethics, with which she has had a longstanding and deep engagement, as well as with associated disciplinary contexts, such as nursing and sociology; it shows how acts of performed caring can be understood as artful but also potentially coercive or disempowering. Developing these ideas in relation to Fevered Sleep’s ‘Men & Girls Dance’, in her 8,900-word chapter (chapter 3, pp. 49–66), Stuart-Fisher explores both the gendering of care, the social taboos involved in caring for others and how the experience of vulnerability is re-imagined in this performance. Arguing that ‘Men & Girls Dance’ moves beyond a dyadic model of carer/cared for, Stuart-Fisher explores how care becomes repositioned in this performance as a force of resistance to the restrictive discourses that shape masculinity and girlhood today. Stuart-Fisher’s chapters, along with the other contributions in this carefully curated book, explore different modes of caring for others, rethinking performance through its encounters with interhuman-care and examining how care itself must be re-imagined when placed in dialogue with the aesthetic and embodied processes of socially engaged performance.
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- Non-English
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