Risk, Participation and Performance Practice: Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
: B - Performance and Cultural Industries
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Performance and Cultural Industries
- Output identifier
- UOA33B-1478
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319632414
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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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0
- Research group(s)
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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 identifies performance/risk as an emerging scholarly field and brings together a range of critical perspectives that examine contemporary approaches to risk taking within performance practice. The collection has a special focus on participation and offers insight into how risk is conceived, conceptualised and implemented in a diverse set of contexts that range from applied theatre practice through to live art.
The editorial approach to the collection was both strategic and curatorial. The initial call for contributions prompted significant international interest from well-established scholars as well as emergent and early career academic-practitioners. Including a diverse set of voices in the collection was an important editorial decision and echoes the core ethic of inclusion and participation within the volume itself. Having representation from the Global North and South was a critical editorial choice as was the decision to bring authors into conversation with each other, a process facilitated and curated by the editor.
As editor, O’Grady was responsible for sifting, selecting and curating the collection. She set out the theoretical agenda for the volume and worked closely with authors to develop chapters to completion and in line with the thematic structure of the collection. The volume is intentionally eclectic and diverse but is singular in its core mission to move forward scholarly debate on the ethics of risk in response to the contemporary political, economic and cultural agenda.
The editor was responsible for identifying and developing the two key concepts that frame the collection, namely ‘risky aesthetics’ and ‘critical vulnerabilities’. Authors were asked to respond directly to these as framing devices for their chapters. The editor produced the introductory chapter as a single authored piece which sets out the broader contextual and theoretical landscape for the collection as well as offering a new model of ‘edgeplay’for consideration by readers.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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