Performance and the Global City
- Editor: Hopkins, D. J.
- Editor: Solga, Kim
Performance and the Global City
- Editor: Hopkins, D. J.
- Editor: Solga, Kim
Purchase product
About
This volume, now available in paperback, explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Borders, Performance, and the Global Urban Condition
- D.J. Hopkins with Kim Solga
- PART I : MOBILITIES AND (IN)CIVILITIES: THE GLOBAL URBAN BORDERLANDS
- 1. The Drama of Hospitality: Performance, Migration and Urban Renewal in Johannesburg
- Loren Kruger 2. Performing Survival in the Global City: Theatre ISÔKO's The Monument
- Jennifer H. Capraru and Kim Solga 3. Eva / Nacha / Cristina and the Argentine Trinity of Local, National, and Global Urban Politics
- Jean Graham-Jones 4. China's Global Performatives: 'Better City, Better Life'
- Susan Bennett
- PART II : TRANSACTING BODIES / EMBODIED CURRENCIES: SUBJECTS AND CITIES
- 5. Losing Venice: Conversations in a Sinking City
- Nicolas Whybrow 6. The Urbanization and Transnational Circulation of the Peruvian Scissors Dance
- Jason Bush 7. Commuting Performance ? Working the Middle Ground
- Paul Rae and Simon Jones 8. Cultures of Commuting: The Mobile Negotiation of Space and Subjectivity on Delhi's Metro
- Melissa Butcher
- PART III : CITIZEN STAGES: ACTS OF DISSENT IN THE GLOBAL CITY
- 9. Distrito Federal: 'Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!'
- Ana Martinez 10. Sarajevo: A World City Under Siege
- Silvija Jestrovic 11. Cairo: My City, My Revolution
- Nesreen Hussein 12. Dramaturgies of Crisis and Performances of Citizenship: Syntagma Square, Athens
- Philip Hager Bibliography Index
