Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times (1st ed. 2017) (Contemporary Performance InterActions)

By: Elin Diamond and Denise Varney and Candice Amich

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Synopsis: This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities – of political impingements on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of dispossession – within and beyond individuals to the social and political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781137598103
Related ISBNs:: 9781137598097
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
Date of Addition:: 11/18/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Elin Diamond
Edited by:: Denise Varney
Edited by:: Candice Amich