Research Catalog

Title

Performance in a militarized culture / edited by Sara Brady and Lindsey Mantoan.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brady, Sara
• Mantoan, Lindsey

Description

xv, 337 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Performing arts > Social aspects
• Militarization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Sarah Bay-Cheng -- Performance in the age of intelligent warfare: Introduction / Sara Brady, Lindsey Mantoan -- In the absence of the gun: performing militarization. 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: The freedom theatre and cultural resistance in Jenin, Palestine -- Bart Pitchford: Tactical performance across a revolutionary timeline -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Call Number

MWET 18-1518

ISBN

• 9781138690189
• 113869018X
• 9781138740808
• 1138740802

LCCN

• 2016050302
• 40027594201

OCLC

967196102

Title

Performance in a militarized culture / edited by Sara Brady and Lindsey Mantoan.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brady, Sara, editor.

Mantoan, Lindsey, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027594201

Research Call Number

MWET 18-1518