Performance and participation practices, audiences, politics
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 10116
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137393166
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics was co-edited by Harpin and Professor Helen Nicholson (RHUL). Both Harpin and Nicholson contributed chapters, shared the editorial labour, and co-wrote the introduction. The book brings together a range of theatre and performance scholars in order to rethink the relationship between performance and participation. In short, the book seeks to move beyond thinking about participation as simply ‘joining in’. Indeed, Harpin’s chapter examines elective mutism and modes of non-participation as forms of political action and resistance. The collection overall draws together a wide range of practices – from marathon running to gardening to immersive theatre – as a means to ask what participation means and does in a diverse range of contexts. Extant scholarhip on the subject takes a different approach insofar as it is often concerned with how audiences get involved with a given performance – as invitation and response. However, Harpin and Nicholson wanted to consider the act of participation in a wider, enmeshed sense of mutual political being and doing. The book therefore asks questions about the labour of participation, the authorship of participation, and how we come to recognise participation when we see it or encounter it. In this sense it is a book about the politics of performance and therefore has significance beyond its home discipline. By examining issues of power, voice, witnessing and so on, collectively the authors offer a new reading of the meaning and value of political and aesthetic participation.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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