Contemporary Performance InterActions

Aston, E. (Ed), Singleton, B. (Ed)

Theatre's performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, CPI publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context.

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Performing the Secular Book

Performing the Secular

Gluhovic, M. (Ed), Menon, J. (Ed) (2017)

With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural …

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Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times Book

Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times

Diamond, E. (Ed), Varney, D. (Ed), Amich, C. (Ed) (2017)

This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and …

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Staging Queer Feminisms Book

Staging Queer Feminisms

French, S. (2017)

This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that …

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Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland Book

Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland

McIvor, C. (2016)

This book investigates Ireland’s translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‘new interculturalism’ for …

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Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts Book

Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts

O'Rawe, D. (Ed), Phelan, M. (Ed) (2016)

Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern …

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Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts Book

Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts

Anan, N. (2016)

This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period …

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Theatre's Heterotopias Book

Theatre's Heterotopias

Tompkins, J. (2014)

Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating …

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