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The Performance of Politics

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199780021

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Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates' positions on the issues of the day. But are these the only--or even the main--factors that determine the vote? The Performance of Politics develops a new way of looking at democratic struggles for power, explaining what happened, and why, during the 2008 presidential campaign in the United States. Drawing on vivid examples taken from a range of media coverage, participant observation at a Camp Obama, and interviews with leading political journalists, Jeffrey Alexander argues that images, emotion, and performance are the central features of the battle for power. While these features have been largely overlooked by pundits, they are, in fact, the primary foci of politicians and their staff. Obama and McCain painstakingly constructed heroic self-images for their campaigns and the successful projections of those images suffused not only each candidate's actual rallies, and not only their media messages, but also the ground game. Money and organization facilitate the ground game, but they do not determine it. Emotion, images, and performance do. Though an untested senator and the underdog in his own party, Obama succeeded in casting himself as the hero--and McCain the anti-hero--and the only candidate fit to lead in challenging times. Illuminating the drama of Obama's celebrity, the effect of Sarah Palin on the race, and the impact of the emerging financial crisis, Alexander's engaging narrative marries the immediacy and excitement of the final months of this historic presidential campaign with a new understanding of how politics work.

Performance, Politics and Activism

P. Lichtenfels,J. Rouse

Author : P. Lichtenfels,J. Rouse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137341051

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Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

The Politics of Performance

Baz Kershaw

Author : Baz Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134932726

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Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice.

Performance Politics and the British Voter

Harold D. Clarke

Author : Harold D. Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521874441

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Performance Politics and the British Voter by Harold D. Clarke Pdf

Shows that judgment of party competence is at the heart of electoral choice in contemporary Britain.

The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

Shirin M. Rai,Milija Gluhovic,Silvija Jestrovic,Michael Saward

Author : Shirin M. Rai,Milija Gluhovic,Silvija Jestrovic,Michael Saward
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190863456

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The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance by Shirin M. Rai,Milija Gluhovic,Silvija Jestrovic,Michael Saward Pdf

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 thatcertain 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.

Unmarked

Peggy Phelan

Author : Peggy Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134916405

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Unmarked by Peggy Phelan Pdf

Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion demonstrations.

Performance and Cultural Politics

Elin Diamond

Author : Elin Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136165887

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Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.

The Grammar of Politics and Performance

Shirin M Rai,Janelle Reinelt

Author : Shirin M Rai,Janelle Reinelt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134751266

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This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other disciplines. This book investigates the structural similarities and features of politics and performance, which are referred to here as ‘grammar’, a concept which also emphasizes the common communicational base or language of these fields. In each of the chapters included in this collection, key processes of both politics and performance are identified and analyzed, demonstrating the critical and indivisible links between the fields. The book also underlines that neither politics nor performance can take place without actors who perform and spectators who receive, evaluate and react to these actions. At the heart of the project is the ambition to bring about a paradigm change, such that politics cannot be analyzed seriously without a sophisticated understanding of its performance. All the chapters here display a concrete set of events, practices, and contexts within which politics and performance are inseparable elements. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in both International Relations and Performance Studies.

The Politics of Public Sector Performance

Michael Roll

Author : Michael Roll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317934547

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It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or ‘pockets of effectiveness’ in developing countries. Why do these pockets exist? How do they emerge and survive in hostile environments? And do they have the potential to trigger more comprehensive reforms and state-building? This book provides surprising answers to these questions, based on detailed case studies of exceptional public organizations and state-owned enterprises in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. The case studies are guided by a common analytical framework that is process-oriented and sensitive to the role of politics. The concluding comparative analysis develops a novel explanation for why some public organizations in the developing world beat the odds and turn into pockets of public sector performance and service delivery while most do not. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, development, organizations, public administration, public policy and management.

Disidentifications

José Esteban Muñoz

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452942544

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Disidentifications by José Esteban Muñoz Pdf

There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Muñoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.Muñoz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color—in Carmelita Tropicana’s “Camp/Choteo” style politics, Marga Gomez’s performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis’s “Terrorist Drag,” Isaac Julien’s critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s performances of “disidentity,” and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial environment of the MTV serialThe Real World.

Performance and the Politics of Space

Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415509688

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Performance and the Politics of Space by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz Pdf

This collection asks what's at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts in theatre history and contemporary performance.

Follow the Leader?

Gabriel S. Lenz

Author : Gabriel S. Lenz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226472157

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Follow the Leader? by Gabriel S. Lenz Pdf

In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters consider candidates’ policy positions when deciding for whom to vote? And how do politicians’ performances in office factor into the voting decision? In Follow the Leader?, Gabriel S. Lenz sheds light on these central questions of democratic thought. Lenz looks at citizens’ views of candidates both before and after periods of political upheaval, including campaigns, wars, natural disasters, and episodes of economic boom and bust. Noting important shifts in voters’ knowledge and preferences as a result of these events, he finds that, while citizens do assess politicians based on their performance, their policy positions actually matter much less. Even when a policy issue becomes highly prominent, voters rarely shift their votes to the politician whose position best agrees with their own. In fact, Lenz shows, the reverse often takes place: citizens first pick a politician and then adopt that politician’s policy views. In other words, they follow the leader. Based on data drawn from multiple countries, Follow the Leader? is the most definitive treatment to date of when and why policy and performance matter at the voting booth, and it will break new ground in the debates about democracy.

Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere

Katia Arfara,Aneta Mancewicz,Ralf Remshardt

Author : Katia Arfara,Aneta Mancewicz,Ralf Remshardt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319753430

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Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere by Katia Arfara,Aneta Mancewicz,Ralf Remshardt Pdf

This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of socially-engaged artistic practices to the current crisis in politics and media. It also critically examines urgent issues such as rampant nationalism and populism, expanding neoliberalism, the refugee crisis, growing inosculations of corporate and cyber culture, and the ongoing geopolitical changes in the Middle East. Can intermedial performances reflect the present artistic and political dilemmas in Europe and beyond? The collection provides theoretical frameworks that interrogate the role that spectators as citizens can play in our mediatized world while focusing on the functions of immersion, participation, and civic engagement in contemporary performance and society. The collection provides analyses by international scholars from Europe, Asia, and the USA, covering global performance created in the twenty-first century. It also introduces interviews with internationally acclaimed intermedial artists and companies such as BERLIN, Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Akira Takayama, and Kris Verdonck.

The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education

Kevin J. Dougherty,Rebecca S. Natow

Author : Kevin J. Dougherty,Rebecca S. Natow
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421416908

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The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education by Kevin J. Dougherty,Rebecca S. Natow Pdf

"One of the striking ways in which state governments have pursued better performance in public higher education is through the use of performance funding. Performance funding involves tying state support directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes such as rates of graduation and job placement. The principal rationale for performance funding has been that the introduction of market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient, delivering "more bang for the buck." Kevin Dougherty, an expert on state performance funding, finds its development puzzling. First, despite the great interest in it, only half the states have ever adopted performance funding for higher education. Moreover, of the states that did adopt performance funding, over half later dropped it. Finally, in the states that have retained performance funding over a long period of time, their programs have undergone considerable changes in the amount of state funding they devote to performance funding and in the content of the indicators they use to allocate that funding. In spite of this, performance funding continues to attract interest as a way of improving educational outcomes. This book, based on an extensive ten-state study, aims to shed light on the social and political factors affecting the origins, evolution, and demise of these programs"--