Description
Book SynopsisJacques Rancière has been hugely influential in field of political philosophy and aesthetics. This edited collection is the first to investigate the points of contact between the work of Rancière and the field of theatre and performance studies. From theatrocracy to emancipated spectators, recent scholarly works in this discipline have drawn upon concepts from Rancière’s writing to investigate problems of audience, participation, politics and pedagogy. Before these concepts and critical tools peel away from the works through which they emerged, this book seeks a detailed critical assessment of the works themselves and their implications for theatre and performance studies. The collection examines the critical and analytical interventions that have been made to date and looks forward, towards challenges to the future uses of Rancière’s work in performance. This book project includes work by fourteen scholars and is an essential resource for researchers and academics working in all areas of performance and identity, performance and activism, and performance and philosophy.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Section 1: Aesthetics and Politics, Politics and Aesthetics
RYAN HATCH - The Politics of Aesthetics, in a State of Disruption
LIESBETH GROOT NIBBELINK - Soft Shivers, Sweaty Politics: Dramaturgy and the Pensive Body
COLETTE CONROY - Rancière and Disability Performance
Section 2: The Role of Theatre and Performance
SHULAMITH LEV-ALEDGEM - Performing Philosophy: Rancière as Playwright, Director and Performer in The Ignorant Schoolmaster
ADRIAN KEAR - Staging the People: Performance, Presence and Representation
NIC FRYER - ‘Apart, we are together. Together, we are apart’: Rancière’s Community of Translators in Theory and Theatre
Section 3: Spectatorship and Participation
JENNY HUGHES - Nights of Theatrical Labour in the Victorian Workhouse
WILL SHÜLER - The Emancipated Educator: Chance, Will, and Equality in Higher Education Role-Immersion Pedagogies
GARETH WHITE - Scenes From The Aesthetic Regime Of Game Theatre
Section 4: Performance as Political Disruption
JANELLE REINELT - Resisting Rancière
CAOIMHE MADER McGUINNESS - Dissensual Reproductions in You Should See the Other Guy’s Land of the Three Towers
STEPHEN SCOTT-BOTTOMS - A Drop in the Ocean: The Paradoxes of Performing Activism
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