@article{1360216,
      recid = {1360216},
      author = {Merriman, Victor.},
      title = {Austerity and the Public Role of Drama : Performing  Lives-in-Common /},
      pages = {1 online resource (176 pages).},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play  under Project Austerity - an intensification phase of  contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the  erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and  critiques the attention economy of deficit culture, by  which austerity erodes life-in-common in favour of  narcissistic performances of life-in-public. It argues for  a social order committed to human flourishing and  deliberative democracy, as a counterweight to the political  economy of austerity. It demonstrates, using examples from  England, Ireland, Italy, and the USA, that drama and the  academy pursue shared humane concerns; the one, a critical  art form, the other, a social enabler of critical thought  and progressive ideas. A need for dialogue with emergent  forms of collective consciousness, new democratic practices  and institutions, shapes a manifesto for critical  performance, which invites universities and cultural  workers to join other social actors in imagining and  enabling ethical lives-in-common.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1360216},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03260-9},
}