03431nam 22005175 450 991048363210332120200704060154.03-030-03260-410.1007/978-3-030-03260-9(CKB)4100000007746668(MiAaPQ)EBC5720226(DE-He213)978-3-030-03260-9(EXLCZ)99410000000774666820190226d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAusterity and the Public Role of Drama Performing Lives-in-Common /by Victor Merriman1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2019.1 online resource (176 pages)Palgrave pivotIncludes index.3-030-03259-0 Part I Neo-liberalism’s Political and Moral Economic Project: The End of Public Life? -- 1. Introduction: Austerity and Drama’s Public Role -- 2. The Public World: an idea under pressure -- 3. Drama in Public Worlds. -Part II Performance, the Academy, and the Politics of Austerity -- 4. Drama Worlds As Public Worlds -- 5. Confronting Corporate Neo-liberalism in Jim Nolan’s Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (2016) -- 6. (Re)Public Worlds: Drama as Ethical Encounter -- 7. Beyond Deficit Culture: Conceptualising Collectives -- 8. Beyond Repair: A Critical Performance Manifesto. .This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and critiques the attention economy of deficit culture, by which austerity erodes life-in-common in favour of narcissistic performances of life-in-public. It argues for a social order committed to human flourishing and deliberative democracy, as a counterweight to the political economy of austerity. It demonstrates, using examples from England, Ireland, Italy, and the USA, that drama and the academy pursue shared humane concerns; the one, a critical art form, the other, a social enabler of critical thought and progressive ideas. A need for dialogue with emergent forms of collective consciousness, new democratic practices and institutions, shapes a manifesto for critical performance, which invites universities and cultural workers to join other social actors in imagining and enabling ethical lives-in-common.Palgrave pivot.TheaterPerforming artsContemporary Theatrehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415040National/Regional Theatre and Performancehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415080Performing Artshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415030Theater.Performing arts.Contemporary Theatre.National/Regional Theatre and Performance.Performing Arts.792306.484Merriman Victorauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1226036BOOK9910483632103321Austerity and the Public Role of Drama2846587UNINA