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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219862103321

Autore

H. Raheja Michelle

Titolo

In the balance [[electronic resource] ] : indigeneity, performance, globalization / / edited by Helen Gilbert, J.D. Phillipson, Michelle H. Raheja

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2017

Liverpool, England : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78694-080-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

892.409678

Soggetti

Indigenous peoples - Social life and customs

Indigenous peoples - Politics and government

Performance art - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in the interactions, contradictions, disjunctions, opportunities, exclusions, injustices and aspirations that globalization entails. Focusing specifically on embodied arts and activism, this interdisciplinary volume offers vital new perspectives on the power and precariousness of indigeneity as a politicized cultural force in our unevenly connected world. Twenty-three distinct voices speak to the growing visibility of indigenous peoples’ performance on a global scale over recent decades, drawing specific examples from the Americas, Australia, the Pacific, Scandinavia and South Africa. An ethical touchstone in some arenas and a thorny complication in others, indigeneity is now belatedly recognised as mattering in global debates about natural resources, heritage, governance, belonging and social justice, to name just some of the contentious issues that continue to stall the unfinished business of decolonization. To explore this critical



terrain, the essays and images gathered here range in subject from independent film, musical production, endurance art and the performative turn in exhibition and repatriation practices to the appropriation of hip-hop, karaoke and reality TV. Collectively, they urge a fresh look at mechanisms of postcolonial entanglement in the early 21st century as well as the particular rights and insights afforded by indigeneity in that process.