Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.
Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children's theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, titled Off Stage, employs performance as a lens to analyse the wider field of refugee politics, including the relationship between forced migrants and the forced displacement of First Nations peoples that underpins the settler-colonial state, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, t
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors' Biographies
Introduction: Performance, Refuge and Resistance
Suzanne Little, Samid Suliman and Caroline Wake
On Stage
Chapter 1 Refugees, Visual Culture and Theatre: Reinscriptions and Contestations
Suzanne Little
Chapter 2 The Breath of Another: Mediated Testimony in the Play Manus
Anna Szörényi
Chapter 3 Eschewing Precarity in Spoken Word Poetry: Towards the Performance of Agency in Refugee Storytelling
Sukhmani Khorana
Chapter 4 Manus Island and Kurdistan in Juxtaposition: Reading Remain and Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time Beyond the Story of the Manus Prison
Zhila Gholami
Chapter 5 Offshore Onstage: Refugee Policies, Media Ecologies and Migrant Dramaturgies in Australia, 2001–2021
Caroline Wake
Off Stage
Chapter 6 Trouble on the Horizon
Suvendrini Perera
Chapter 7 The Anxiety of Cosmopolitanism in Political Philosophy
Nikos Papastergiadis
Chapter 8 How to Appear? Writing Art History in Australia after 1973
Verónica Tello
Chapter 9 Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law
Maria Giannacopoulos
Chapter 10 Putting on a Show: Considering the Dark Matter of Australian Border Theatre
Samid Suliman
Index
