Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics....Pages 25-36
Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney....Pages 37-50
The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy....Pages 51-70
Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the ‘Americanization’ of the American University....Pages 71-88
Performance Studies in Japan....Pages 89-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia....Pages 109-121
Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of the Slovenian Journal Maska....Pages 122-135
’say as I Do’: Performance Research in Singapore....Pages 136-152
The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany....Pages 153-167
Translate, or Else: Marking the Glocal Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia....Pages 168-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity....Pages 191-206
Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia....Pages 207-221
Word and Action in Israeli Performance....Pages 222-235
Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa....Pages 236-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-261