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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255257703321

Autore

McIvor Charlotte

Titolo

Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland : Towards a New Interculturalism / / by Charlotte McIvor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137469731

1137469730

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 296 p. 7 illus. in color.)

Collana

Contemporary Performance InterActions, , 2634-5889

Disciplina

792

Soggetti

Performing arts

Theater

Culture - Study and teaching

Emigration and immigration

Theatre and Performance Arts

Cultural Theory

Human Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Towards a New Interculturalism? -- Part I. Intercultural Production Infrastructures. -- Chapter 1. Playboy of the Western World and Old/New Interculturalisms -- Chapter 2. Casting, Translation and Adaptation as Interculturalism-from-Below -- Part II. Producing the Intercultural Subject -- Chapter 3. Performing Historical Duty -- Chapter 4. Labour(ed) Relations: Migrant Women and Performative Labour -- Part III. Intercultural Publics -- Chapter 5. Community Theatre as Active Citizenship -- Chapter 6. Essences of Social Change -- Conclusion. The “New Irish”? .

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates Ireland’s translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‘new interculturalism’ for theatre and performance studies at large. Offering the first full-length, post-1990s study of the effect of large-scale immigration and interculturalism as social policy on Irish theatre and performance, McIvor argues that inward-migration changes most



of what can be assumed about Irish theatre and performance and its relationship to national identity. By using case studies that include theatre, dance, photography, and activist actions, this book works through major debates over aesthetic interculturalism in theatre and performance studies post-1970s and analyses Irish social interculturalism in a contemporary European social and cultural policy context. Drawing together the work of professional and community practitioners who frequently identify as both artists and activists, Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland proposes a new paradigm for the study of Irish theatre and performance while contributing to the wider investigation of migration and performance. .