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Performance and Civic Engagement

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Editors:
  1. Ananda Breed

    1. University of East London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Tim Prentki

    1. University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

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  • Addresses varied strategies for engaging communities towards effecting political and social change
  • Explores notions of social engagement through the digitisation of performances
  • Interrogates the interface between geographical and sovereign spaces, from the United Kingdom to Kyrgyzstan
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. General Introduction

    • Ananda Breed, Tim Prentki
    Pages 1-16

  3. Politicising Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Introduction to Politicising Communities

      • Ananda Breed, Tim Prentki
      Pages 19-24

    3. A Dog’s Obeyed in Office

      • Tim Prentki
      Pages 25-39

    4. Performing Difference: Diversity, Representation and the Nation

      • Dominic Hingorani
      Pages 41-68

    5. At Home and Abroad: The Study Room in Exile

      • Gary Anderson, Lena Å imić
      Pages 69-88

    6. Interview with Roland Muldoon

      • Ananda Breed
      Pages 89-98

  4. Applying Digital Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Introduction to Applying Digital Agency

      • Ananda Breed, Tim Prentki
      Pages 101-105

    3. Nowhere Without You

      • Misha Myers
      Pages 107-133

    4. Sounding Out the City

      • Hannah Nicklin
      Pages 135-158

    5. The Dead Are Coming: Political Performance Art, Activist Remembrance and Dig(ital) Protests

      • Samuel Merrill
      Pages 159-185

    6. Internet, Theatre and the Public Voice

      • Christina Papagiannouli
      Pages 187-203

    7. Interview with Christian Cherene

      • Ananda Breed
      Pages 205-212
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About this book

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the overlapping discourses of politics, cultural geography and performance, investigating how and why physical and digital spaces can be analysed and utilised to develop new art forms that challenge traditional notions of how performance is political and how politics are performative. Across three sections - Politicising Communities, Applying Digital Agency and Performing Landscapes and Identities - the ten chapters and three interviews cover a wide variety of international perspectives, all informed by innovative ways of addressing the current crisis of social fragmentation through performance. Providing access to many debates on the theory and practice of new media, this book is of significance to readers from a broad set ofacademic disciplines, including politics, sociology, geography, and performance studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of East London, London, United Kingdom

    Ananda Breed

  • University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

    Tim Prentki

About the editors

Ananda Breed is Reader in Performing Arts at the University of East London, UK. She is author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (2014) in addition to several publications that address transitional systems of governance and the arts. She has worked as a consultant for IREX and UNICEF in Indonesia and Central Asia on issues concerning conflict negotiation and conducted applied arts workshops internationally. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at UEL and former Research Fellow at the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie University (2013-2014).


Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester, UK. He is the author of The Fool in European Theatre and Applied Theatre Development, co-author of Popular Theatre in Political Culture and co-editor of The Applied Theatre Reader. He also writes regularly for Research in Drama Education and Applied Theatre Research.

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