The grammar of politics and performance /

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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Description:	xiv, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Interventions Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Subject:	Communication in politics -- Social aspects. Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects. Theater -- Political aspects. Performing arts -- Political aspects. Communication in politics -- Social aspects. Performing arts -- Political aspects. Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects. Theater -- Political aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127287

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Other authors / contributors:	Rai, Shirin, editor. Reinelt, Janelle G., editor.
ISBN:	9780415716505 0415716500 9781315879871
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This volume brings together important work at the interstection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines such as psychology (Freud's primal 'scene'), sociology (Goffman's 'backstage'), and politics (politicians 'play' to the public, stage debates), this metaphorical attribution has seldom been taken seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other realms"--

Table of Contents:

List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Performing democracy: roles, stages, scripts
3. Performance at the crossroads of citizenship
4. 'I am an American': protesting advertised 'Americanness'
5. Characterization and systemic gender violence: the example of Laundry and the figure of the mother in Irish culture
6. Theatricality vs. bare life: performance as a vernacular of resistance
7. Becoming a democratic audience
8. Street arts, radical democratic citizenship and a grammar of storytelling
9. Tahrir Square, EC4M: the Occupy movement and the dramaturgy of public order
10. Temporality, politics and performance: missing, displaced, disappeared
11. Performance and politics: ceremony and ritual in Parliament
12. Bringing the audience back in: Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the efficacy of public hearings
13. Betrayal and what follows: rituals of repentance, healing and anger in response to the church sexual abuse scandal in Ireland
14. Closet grammars of intentional deception: the logic of lies, state security and homosexual panic in cold war politics
15. Afterword: soverign and critical grammars
Bibliography
Index

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