Performing Care : New perspectives on socially engaged performance
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 157853412
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-5261-4680-9
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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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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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Performing Care is a 109000-word co-edited collection of commissioned essays that offers the first sustained interrogation of the relationship between socially engaged performance and care, edited jointly by Stuart-Fisher and Thompson (50/50). Examining a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance projects and placing these in dialogue with theorisations of care ethics the book interrogates how the ethico-political structures that determine performance’s relationship with the social might be reconfigured through an interrogation of inter-human care. Thompson’s first essay (chapter 2), which first appeared Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (2015, 20:4, pp.1-12) forges dialogical connections between aesthetic acts and caring for others that have been influential to the development of the discussions explored within many other chapters of the book. Thompson’s second essay (chapter 13) further develops his argument and draws on three examples of socially engaged performance to argue for a performance ethics based on interdependency, which, he suggests generates an ethics that recognises the possibility for a relational basis for a more just society. Taken as a whole, the book advances our understanding of the way socially engaged performance can be re-conceptualised when framed through the concept of care and how care itself is rethought when interrogated through the aesthetic and embodied processes of these kinds of performance practices.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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