Brady / Mantoan Performance in a Militarized Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-85785-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 354 Seiten

The long cultural moment which arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status quo. Addressing the most commonplace of everyday interactions, from mobile phonecalls to traffic cameras, this edited collection considers:

- How militarization appropriates and deploys performance techniques

- How performing arts practices can confront militarization

- The long and complex history of militarization

- How the war on terror has transformed into a values system that prioritises the military

- The ways in which performance can be used to secure and maintain power across social strata

Performance in a Militarized Culture draws on performances from North, Central, and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to chronicle a range of experience: from those who live under a daily threat of terrorism, to others who live with a distant, imagined fear of such danger.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brady, Sara

Mantoan, Lindsey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Preface
Sarah Bay-Cheng
Performance in the Age of Intelligent Warfare

Introduction
Sara Brady
Lindsey Mantoan
In the Absence of the Gun: Performing Militarization



I. Sites of Conflict

Katherine Zien

Mises-en-scène of Militarization: Decommissioning US Military Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone

Alexis Bushnell

Justine Nakase

Military Aid: The Spatial Performances and Performativity of Contemporary Refugee Camps

Eylül Fidan Akinci

Sacred Children, Accursed Mothers: Performativities of Necropolitics and Mourning in Neoliberal Turkey

Elin Nicholson

Title: The Freedom Theatre and Cultural Resistance in Jenin, Palestine

Bart Pitchford

Tactical Performance Across a Revolutionary Timeline



II. Militarized History and Memory

Áine Sheil

How to do Things with Music Criticism: Performances of Victory in German Wagner Reception, 1918–33

Susanne Shawyer

"Stop the War in Chicago Please": Performative Protest and the Limits of Dissensus

Jessica Nakamura

Choreographies of Militarized Space: US Military Bases, Everyday Life, and Performance in Okinawa, Japan

Solveig Gade

Reviving the Tradition of the Battle Painting: The Militarization of Danish Culture



III. Performing the Soldier

tyler boudreau

Soldier Street Theatre

Lindsey Mantoan

No Easy Mission: Bin Laden, Exceptionalism, and Gendered Heroism in the Post-Heroic Age

Sarah Beck
Going Outside the Wire:

Service Members as Documentary Subjects in Black Watch and

ReEntry

Cami Rowe

Challenging the Characterizations of Military Service: A Critical Comparison of British and American Counter-Recruitment Efforts

Michael St. Clair

Strategic Simulation and the American Military Imaginary

Scott Magelssen

Performing Flight: Test Pilots, Commercial Airlines, and the Cold War







IV. The Militarization of the Everyday

Lindsay Livingston

Picking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Firearm Ownership in the Long Civil Rights Movement

Emily Klein

Failure, Future Tense: Adaptation, Affect, and Apathy in American Theatre’s Militarized Dystopias

Asher Warren

Weaponized Bureaucracy: Kill-Chains, Drones, and Tethers

Jacqueline Viskup
Re-staging Surveillance Tragedy as Critical Resistance

Kashif Powell
The Time to Break (Silence): Disavowing the Affects of Militarization and Death through the Performance of Black Existence

Afterword

Wendy S. Hesford
Constitutive Performance: Human Rights in a Militarized Culture

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Lindsey Mantoan is a Fellow in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric.