The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

Political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance. Theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts. Yet the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. Further, it is crucial to bring the concepts of theatre and performance deployed by other disciplines such as psychology, law, political anthropology, sociology among others into a wider, as well as deeper, interdisciplinary engagement. Embodying and fostering that engagement is at the heart of this new handbook. The Handbook brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance to map out the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. The authors--drawn from a wide range of disciplines--investigate the relationship between politics and performance to show that certain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines, and that they also share, to a large extent, a common communicational base and language. The volume is organized into seven thematic sections: the interdisciplinary theory of politics and performance; performativity and theatricality (protest, regulation, resistance, change, authority); identities (race, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, indigeneity); sites (states, borders, markets, law, religion); scripts (accountability, authority and legitimacy, security, ceremony, sustainability); body, voice, and gesture (representation, leadership, participation, rhetoric, disruption); and affect (media, care, love empathy, comedy, populism, memory). Colonial theatricality / Lisa Skwirbliesc -- Theatricality, sovereignty, and resistance : beyond theater of roots / Ameet Parameswaran -- Authenticity and theatricality : world spectatorship and the drama of the image / Adrian Kear -- Law, presence to absence : the case of the disappearing defendant / Kate Leader -- Toward a theatrical history of the picket line / Sophie Nield -- Protest and performativity / Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga -- Representation / Jean-Pascal Daloz -- Class, race, and marginality : informal street performances in the city / Katie Beswick -- Gender, politics, performance : embodiment and representation in political institutions / Carole Spary -- National identity / Edgaras Klivis -- Performance and citizenship : the Roma in Europe / Ioana Szeman -- From exile to migration : staging (the) face of the human waste / Yana Meerzon -- Island impasse : refugee detention and the thickening border / Emma Cox -- Media sites : political revivals of American Muslim women / Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- The force of the somatic norm : women as space invaders in the UK Parliament / Nirmal Puwar -- The market : eighteenth-century insights into the performance of market practices / Matthew Watson -- Staging memorialization : performing the war on terror and resilient nationalism / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- Urban sites of the everyday and the international : the other city and the aesthetic subject / Matt Davies -- The politics of neoliberal rituals : performing the institutionalization of liminality at trade fairs / Anna Leander -- Empire : a performative approach to imperial frontiers and formations in Palestine / Catherine Chiniara Charrett -- Nativism : African bodies and photographic performance / Desiree Lewis -- Immersion / Willmar Sauter -- Ceremony, genealogy, political theology / Stuart Elden -- Pedagogy : (mis)performing the contemporary university / Erzsébet Strausz -- Scripts, authority, and legitimacy : the view from China and beyond / Julia C. Strauss -- Political leadership : "saving the show" / John Uhr -- Adaptation and environment : landscape, community, and politics in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019) / Vicky Angelaki -- Interruption and interpellation : leaving the theater in search of the theater / Sruti Bala -- Performing political ideologies / Alan Finlayson -- Music : women rewriting punk performance politics / M.I. Franklin -- Eroticism and the politics of representing the abused body / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Performing gestures at protests and other sites / Bishnupriya Dutt -- What's in a name? The politics of labeling in disability performance / Bree Hadley -- Taking a position : contemporary dance and the communication of deep political feeling / Stephen Coleman -- The body politic and JFK's bad back : questions of embodiment in the performance of politics / Julia Peetz -- Postmemory : politics and performance in Latin America / Jordana Blejmar -- Performing political empathy / Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison -- Care / Narelle Warren -- The nation as family : motherhood and love in Japan / Nobuko Anan -- Constituency performances : the heart of democratic politics / Emma Crewe and Nicholas Sarra -- Comedy and the performative politics of Brexit / James Brassett -- Atmospheres of protest / Illan rua Wall -- Performance and populism : choreographing popular forms of collectivity / Goran Petrović Lotina Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Contributors 10 Introduction: Politics and/as Performance, Performance and/as Politics 20 I Performativity and Theatricality 42 1. Colonial Theatricality 46 2. Theatricality, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Beyond Theater of Roots 62 3. Authenticity and Theatricality 76 4. Law, Presence to Absence: The Case of the Disappearing Defendant 92 5. Toward a Theatrical History of the Picket Line 108 6. Protest and Performativity 120 7. Representation 136 II Identities 150 8. Class, Race, and Marginality 154 9. Gender, Politics, Performance 170 10. National Identity 188 11. Performance and Citizenship: The Roma in Europe 202 12. From Exile to Migration: Staging (the) Face of the Human Waste 218 III Sites 232 13. Island Impasse: Refugee Detention and the Thickening Border 236 14. Media Sites: Political Revivals of American Muslim Women 254 15. The Force of the Somatic Norm 270 16. The Market 284 17. Staging Memorialization 298 18. Urban Sites of the Everyday and the International 312 19. The Politics of Neoliberal Rituals 326 20. Empire 344 IV Scripts 362 21. Nativism: African Bodies and Photographic Performance 366 22. Immersion 382 23. Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology 396 24. Pedagogy: (Mis)Performing the Contemporary University 410 25. Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy 424 26. Political Leadership: “Saving the Show” 440 27. Adaptation and Environment 456 V Body, Voice, Gesture 470 28. Interruption and Interpellation 474 29. Performing Political Ideologies 490 30. Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics 504 31. Eroticism and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body 520 32. Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites 536 33. What’s in a Name? The Politics of Labeling in Disability Performance 550 34. Taking a Position 564 35. The Body Politic and JFK’s Bad Back 580 VI Affect 596 36. Postmemory: Politics and Performance in Latin America 600 37. Performing Political Empathy 614 38. Care 628 39. The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan 642 40. Constituency Performances: The Heart of Democratic Politics 656 41. Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit 41. Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit 672 42. Atmospheres of Protest 684 43. Performance and Populism 698 Index 712 "The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance is a unique collection of articles introducing cutting-edge research and scholarship on politics and performance, which contributes to exciting interdisciplinary work and to shaping a sub-field. Organised along five themes: performativity/theatricality, identities, sites and scripts, body/voice/gesture and affect, the volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and in Performance, who put forward critically informed interdisciplinary work on everyday social performances - from various embodiments of resistance to a less conscious and willed dimension of reproducing of social and political categories - crowd, as well as performances of political institutions and processes, in order to understand the contemporary world. The aim of the Handbook is to demonstrate that this disciplinary interweaving ultimately produces a richer, more complex view of our contemporary world than either field is able to do on its own. At the heart of the project is the ambition to introduce both performance and politics scholars to the tools of research and analysis needed in order to develop, on one hand, a sophisticated understanding of political actions as a function of performance, and on the other a firmer basis for recognizing the political potential inherent in all acts of performance"-- Provided by publisher While political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance, and theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts, the interdisciplinary nature of this labour has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of politics and performance - drawing on experts across the fields of literature, law, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and media and communiction, as well as politics and theatre and performance - to map out and deepen the evolving interdisciplinary engagement