Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance as both an aesthetic and a political practice in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Borders, Performance, and the Global Urban Condition; D.J. Hopkins with Kim Solga PART I: MOBILITIES AND (IN)CIVILITIES: THE GLOBAL URBAN BORDERLANDS 1. The Drama of Hospitality: Performance, Migration and Urban Renewal in Johannesburg; Loren Kruger 2. Performing Survival in the Global City: Theatre ISOKO's The Monument; Jennifer H. Capraru and Kim Solga 3. Eva / Nacha / Cristina and the Argentine Trinity of Local, National, and Global Urban Politics; Jean Graham-Jones 4. China's Global Performatives: 'Better City, Better Life'; Susan Bennett PART II: TRANSACTING BODIES / EMBODIED CURRENCIES: SUBJECTS AND CITIES 5. Losing Venice: Conversations in a Sinking City; Nicolas Whybrow 6. The Urbanization and Transnational Circulation of the Peruvian Scissors Dance; Jason Bush 7. Commuting Performance ? Working the Middle Ground; Paul Rae and Simon Jones 8. Cultures of Commuting: The Mobile Negotiation of Space and Subjectivity on Delhi's Metro; Melissa Butcher PART III: CITIZEN STAGES: ACTS OF DISSENT IN THE GLOBAL CITY 9. Distrito Federal: 'Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!'; Ana Martinez 10. Sarajevo: A World City Under Siege; Silvija Jestrovic 11. Cairo: My City, My Revolution; Nesreen Hussein 12. Dramaturgies of Crisis and Performances of Citizenship: Syntagma Square, Athens; Philip Hager Bibliography Index
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