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This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a. -- .

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Prologue: A race across the desert
1 Searching for a politics of performance in an age of uncertainty
2 A beheading in Iraq: Medusa, the mirror and a performance of exception
3 Counterinsurgency performance in Northern Ireland: street-crowd-balcony-scenes and the ob-scene
4 A crisis of voice: democratic performance on the London stage
5 Camping up and camping out as antiwar protest performance
6 Performance, counterterrorism and community: cops, neighbours, lovers and double agents
Epilogue: Critical mimesis, refuse and waste
References

Performance in a time of terror

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2011
      ISBN13: 9780719085307, 978-0719085307
      ISBN10: 719085306

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Illustrations
      Prologue: A race across the desert
      1 Searching for a politics of performance in an age of uncertainty
      2 A beheading in Iraq: Medusa, the mirror and a performance of exception
      3 Counterinsurgency performance in Northern Ireland: street-crowd-balcony-scenes and the ob-scene
      4 A crisis of voice: democratic performance on the London stage
      5 Camping up and camping out as antiwar protest performance
      6 Performance, counterterrorism and community: cops, neighbours, lovers and double agents
      Epilogue: Critical mimesis, refuse and waste
      References

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