{"product_id":"performance-resistance-and-refugees-9780367696696","title":"Performance Resistance and Refugees","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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 \u003cem\u003eOn Stage\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eOff Stage\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContributors' Biographies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Performance, Refuge and Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Little, Samid Suliman and Caroline Wake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Refugees, Visual Culture and Theatre: Reinscriptions and Contestations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuzanne Little \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Breath of Another: Mediated Testimony in the Play \u003ci\u003eManus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Szörényi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Eschewing Precarity in Spoken Word Poetry: Towards the Performance of Agency in Refugee Storytelling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSukhmani Khorana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Manus Island and Kurdistan in Juxtaposition: Reading \u003ci\u003eRemain \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChauka, Please Tell Us the Time \u003c\/i\u003eBeyond the Story of the Manus Prison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZhila Gholami\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Offshore Onstage: Refugee Policies, Media Ecologies and Migrant Dramaturgies in Australia, 2001–2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Wake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOff Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Trouble on the Horizon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuvendrini Perera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 The Anxiety of Cosmopolitanism in Political Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikos Papastergiadis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 How to Appear? Writing Art History in Australia after 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerónica Tello\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Giannacopoulos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Putting on a Show: Considering the Dark Matter of Australian Border Theatre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamid Suliman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018026189143,"sku":"9780367696696","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367696696.jpg?v=1750775401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performance-resistance-and-refugees-9780367696696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}