Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas
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Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas

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Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas

About this book

This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

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Yes, you can access Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas by Kim Beauchesne, Alessandra Santos, Kim Beauchesne,Alessandra Santos in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137571540
eBook ISBN
9781137568731
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Chapter 1: Introduction: Utopian Interventions andĀ Their Relevance inĀ the Contemporary Americas
  3. Part I: Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations
  4. Chapter 2: A New (Anti) Manifesto forĀ theĀ Americas. Version 2015
  5. Chapter 3: tangible cartographies: surviving theĀ colonial/welcome toĀ my house
  6. Chapter 4: Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, andĀ theĀ Urban Body inĀ Crisis
  7. Part II: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
  8. Chapter 5: Writing. First. Contacts?
  9. Chapter 6: Colonial Blanket forĀ Peoples Who Refuse toĀ Vanish
  10. Chapter 7: Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos andĀ theĀ Contemporary Zapatista Movement
  11. Chapter 8: Utopic Cannibalism inĀ Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, andĀ TakumĆ£ Kuikuroā€™s As Hiper Mulheres
  12. Part III: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections
  13. Chapter 9: Real Utopias
  14. Chapter 10: No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M.Ā Coetzeeā€™s Disgrace, theĀ Occupy Movement, andĀ Idle No More
  15. Chapter 11: Utopian Discourse andĀ theĀ 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkinā€™s andĀ Curtis Hansonā€™s Too Big toĀ Fail, andĀ Antonio MuƱoz Molinaā€™s Todo lo que era sĆ³lido
  16. Chapter 12: El Che de los Gays andĀ Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances inĀ Postdictatorship Chile
  17. Part IV: Utopia and the Performance of Social Identities: Negotiating Collective Subjectivities
  18. Chapter 13: Could Bilingual Radio BeĀ Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance Through Radio inĀ Western Canada
  19. Chapter 14: Revisiting Utopias fromĀ theĀ 1970s inĀ Argentine Cinema (2003ā€“2012)
  20. Chapter 15: The Utopian Impulse inĀ theĀ Videos ofĀ Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977ā€“1990)
  21. Chapter 16: Utopia inĀ Ruins: TheĀ OchagavĆ­a Hospital
  22. Index