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Performance, Resistance and Refugees

Performance, Resistance and Refugees

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Immigration & RefugeesIndigenous StudiesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0367696681
ISBN13: 9780367696689
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 192
Language: English

This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.

Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children's theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, titled Off Stage, employs performance as a lens to analyse the wider field of refugee politics, including the relationship between forced migrants and the forced displacement of First Nations peoples that underpins the settler-colonial state, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, the role of the canon in art history and the spectacle of bordering practices. In doing so, it illuminates the strategic performativity--and nonperformativity--of the law, philosophy, the state and the academy more broadly in the exclusion and control of refugees.

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