Austerity and the Public Role of Drama : Performing Lives-in-Common / / by Victor Merriman
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| Autore: |
Merriman Victor
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| Titolo: |
Austerity and the Public Role of Drama : Performing Lives-in-Common / / by Victor Merriman
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 792 |
| 306.484 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater |
| Performing arts | |
| Contemporary Theatre | |
| National/Regional Theatre and Performance | |
| Performing Arts | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Austerity and the Public Role of Drama |
| ISBN: | 3-030-03260-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483632103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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