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Performing Statecraft
The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens, and States
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eBook - ePub
Performing Statecraft
The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens, and States
About this book
The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists.
Treating theatre as both an art form and a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the embodied dimensions of governance, the stagecraft of revolution, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms. It brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a play about global conflict, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces.
Treating theatre as both an art form and a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the embodied dimensions of governance, the stagecraft of revolution, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms. It brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a play about global conflict, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces.
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Yes, you can access Performing Statecraft by James R. Ball, Anja Hartl,William C. Boles in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Theatre History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Postdiplomatic Th eatre
- 1 (En)Acting the Republic: The 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland
- 2 An āIndian Princess,ā a King and a Queen, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties at the 1939 Royal Visit
- 3 The Presidentās Yellow Batakari: Performance and the Sartorial in Ghanaian Politics
- 4 Windrush Strikes Back: āRivers of Blood,ā Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy
- 5 Organ Failure: Medicalized Torture During the Iraq War
- 6 Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines
- 7 The President Makes a Play: Putin and ErdoÄanās Sporting Statecraft
- 8 Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking BolĆvar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance1
- Afterword The Future of Dissensus: Performance Postdiplomatic Postdemocracy
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Copyright Page