{"product_id":"communities-performance-and-practice-enacting-communities-9783030957568","title":"Communities, Performance and Practice: Enacting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge  to critical analysis of community performance practice. The concept of community as a form of  class-based solidarity has been hollowed out by postmodernism’s questioning of grand  narratives and poststructuralism’s celebration of difference. Alongside the critique of a notion  of community has been a critical re-signification of community, following the thinking of  philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy who conceives of community not as common being but as being-in-common. The concept of community as being-in-common generates questions that have  been taken up by feminist geographers, J.K. Gibson-Graham, in theorising a post-capitalist  approach to community-based development. These questions and approaches guide the  analyses in researched case studies of community performance practice. The book revises  theoretical debates that have defined the field of community theatre and performance.  It asks how the critical re-signification of community aligns with these debates and, at the same  time, opens new modes of critical analysis of community theatre and performance practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.                Preface – Enacting Community \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.                Historical and theoretical perspectives on community-based theatre and performance practice \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.                acta Community Theatre, the ‘cycle of engagement’ and a ‘community of [community theatre] practice’\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.                \u003ci\u003eYijala Yala\u003c\/i\u003e – Creative Producing Cultural Livelihoods in the Pilbara\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.                \u003ci\u003eThe Crossings \u003c\/i\u003e(part of the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIslands of Milwaukee\u003c\/i\u003e): the agency of older bodies enacting pedestrian crossings\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.                Articulating a community-engagement methodology in an authoritarian communitarian democracy - Drama Box’s \u003ci\u003eIgnorLAND Of Its Time\u003c\/i\u003e performing the ‘HDB nation’ at Bukit Ho Swee.  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.                Epilogue  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743061487959,"sku":"9783030957568","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/communities-performance-and-practice-enacting-communities-9783030957568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}