The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

While political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance, and theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts, the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance--drawing on experts across the fields of literature, law, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and media and communiction, as well as politics and theatre and performance--to map out and deepen the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. Organized into seven thematic sections, the volume investigates the relationship between politics and performance to show that certain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines--and that to a large extent they also share a common communicational base and language.

Shirin M. Rai is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
Milija Gluhovic is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick.
Silvija Jestrovic is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick.
Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Introduction by Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, Shirin Rai, and Michael Saward
Part I: Performativity/Theatricality
1. Lisa Skwirblies - Colonial Theatricality
2. Ameet Parameswaran - Theatricality, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Beyond Theatre of Roots
3. Adrian Kear - Authenticity/Theatricality: World Spectatorship and the Drama of the Image
4. Kate Leader - Law, Presence to Absence: The Case of the Disappearing Defendant
5. Sophie Nield - Towards a Theatrical History of the Picket Line
6. Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga - Protest and Performativity
7. Jean-Pascal Daloz - Representation
Part II: Identities
8. Katie Beswick - Class, Race, and Marginality: Informal Street Performances in the City
9. Carole Spary - Gender, Politics, Performance: Embodiment and Representation in Political Institutions
10. Edgaras Klivis - National Identity
11. Ioana Szeman - Performance and Citizenship: The Roma in Europe
12. Yana Meerzon - From Exile to Migration - Staging (the) Face of the Human Waste
Part III: Sites
13. Emma Cox - Island Impasse: Refugee Detention and the Thickening Border
14. Kimberly Wedeven Segall - Media Sites: Political Revivals of American Muslim Women
15. Nirmal Puwar - The Force of the Somatic Norm: Women as Space Invaders in the UK Parliament
16. Matthew Watson - "The Market": Eighteenth-Century Insights into the Performance of Market Practices
17. Charlotte Heath-Kelly - Staging Memorialisation: Performing the War on Terror and Resilient Nationalism
18. Matt Davies - Urban Sites of the Everyday and the International: The Other City and the Aesthetic Subject
19. Anna Leander - The Politics of Neo-Liberal Rituals: Performing the Institutionalization of Liminality at Trade Fairs
20. Catherine Chinara Charrett - Empire: A Performative Approach to Imperial Frontiers and Formations in Palestine
Part IV: Scripts
21. Desiree Lewis - Nativism: African Bodies and Photographic Performance
22. Willmar Sauter - Immersion
23. Stuart Elden - Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology
24. Erzsébet Strausz - Pedagogy: (Mis)performing the Contemporary University
25. Julia C. Strauss - Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy: The View from China and Beyond
26. John Uhr - Political Leadership: "Saving the Show"
27. Vicky Angelaki - Adaptation and Environment: Landscape, Community and Politics in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019)
Part V: Body/Voice/Gesture
28. Sruti Bala - Hurling and Hailing: Scenes of Interruption and Interpellation
29. Alan Finlayson - Performing Political Ideologies
30. M.I. Franklin - Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics
31. Lisa Fitzpatrick - Eroticism, and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body
32. Bishnupriya Dutt - Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites
33. Bree Hadley - What's in a Name?: The Politics of Labelling in Disability Performance
34. Stephen Coleman - Taking a Position: Contemporary Dance and the Communication of Deep Political Feeling
35. Julia Peetz - The Body Politic and JFK's Bad Back: Questions of Embodiment in the Performance of Politics
Part VI: Affect
36. Jordana Blejmar - Postmemory: Politics and Performance in Latin America
37. Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison - Performing Political Empathy
38. Narelle Warren - Care
39. Nobuko Anan - The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan
40. Emma Crewe and Nicholas Sarra - Constituency Performances: The "Heart" of Democratic Politics
41. James Brassett - Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit
42. Illan rua Wall - Atmospheres of Protest
43. Goran Petrovic Lotina - Performance and Populism: Choreographing Popular Forms of Collectivity