World Political Theatre and Performance
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27Z_OP_B0001
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Brill | Rodopi
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-42580-4
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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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
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection of essays distils more than three years of work by the Political Performances Working Group (PPWG) at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) during the period in which Botham was its lead convenor (2014-2017). The aim of the volume is to offer (a) a diachronic view of the relationship between activism and performance, and (b) to examine the changing nature of what constitutes ‘political theatre’ today. Following meetings of the PPWG, Botham invited a selection of participants to submit abstracts for publication, liaising with the IFTR Vice President over publication in the Brill ‘Themes in Theatre’ series. Botham and her co-editors reviewed the abstracts, and Botham proposed a structure for the volume based on the four annual conference meetings she had led. The eventual contributors – a range of junior and senior academics and practitioners – were drawn from Chile, China, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, France, India, Malta, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Case studies from the respective countries are framed by section introductions that underline both commonalities and tensions, while the general introduction reflects on what a radical practice can look like in the face of global neoliberalism.
The book comprises twelve chapters divided into two parts, each of which is preceded by a section introduction authored by one of the editors. Botham contributed the second of these, ‘Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre’, mapping the key questions in the field through a selective survey of recent critical literature and proposing an emphasis on the reinvention of previous traditions as opposed to the drastic historical break some scholars have observed. Botham also commissioned the general introduction, which was written by a current convenor of PPWG. Botham shared with her co-editors the task of liaising with contributors, proposing additions and amendments, and cross-editing, proofreading and indexing.
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- Non-English
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