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Performance and the global city /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performance and the global city // edited by D.J. Hopkins and Kim Solga.
other author:	Hopkins, D. J.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Art and architecture. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137367853
ISBN:	1137367857 (electronic bk.)

Performance and the global city /
Performance and the global city /edited by D.J. Hopkins and Kim Solga. - 1 online resource. - Performance interventions. - Performance interventions..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ISOKO'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.

Following the ground-breaking "Performance and the City", this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance -- as both an aesthetic and a political practice -- in the burgeoning world cities built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Featuring work by artists as well as scholars, written from multiple disciplinary perspectives, and including dozens of photographs as well as a photo essay by Nicholas Whybrow, Performance and the Global City will appeal to readers interested in urban studies, theatre and performance, geography, sociology, and globalization studies.

ISBN: 1137367857 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1005156
Art and architecture.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN2039

Dewey Class. No.: 792.01

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