Performance, resistance and refugees / Suzanne Little, Samid Suliman, Caroline Wake.
| Other author | Little, Suzanne (Suzanne Ruth) |
| Other author | Suliman, Samid. |
| Other author | Wake, Caroline. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Partial contents | Refugees, Visual Culture, and Theatre: Reinscriptions and Contestations / Suzanne Little -- Offshore Onstage: Refugee Policies, Media Ecologies and Migrant Dramaturgies in Australia, 2001-2021 / Caroline Wake -- Putting on a Show: Considering the Dark Matter of Australian Border Theatre / Samid Suliman. |
| Abstract | "This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection. Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security, and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children's theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art, and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency, and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, titled Off Stage, employs performance as a lens to analyze the wider field of refugee politics, including the relationship between forced migrants and the forced displacement of First Nations peoples that underpins the settler-colonial state, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, the role of the canon in art history, and the spectacle of bordering practices. In doing so, it illuminates the strategic performativity-and nonperformativity-of the law, philosophy, the state, and the academy more broadly in the exclusion and control of refugees. Taken together, these essays volume draw on, and contribute to, a wide range of disciplines including theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, border studies and forced migration studies, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in all four fields"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022035188 |
| ISBN | 9780367696689 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780367696696 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |