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Title
Austerity and the Public Role of Drama : Performing Lives-in-Common / by Victor Merriman.
Edition
1st ed. 2019.
ISBN
3030032604
9783030032609
9783030032593 (print)
3030032590
9783030032616 (print)
3030032612
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (176 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-03260-9 doi
Call Number
PN2000-3307
Dewey Decimal Classification
792
Summary
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.
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Includes index.
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Series
Palgrave pivot.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 3030032590
Part I Neo-liberalism's Political and Moral Economic Project: The End of Public Life?
1. Introduction: Austerity and Drama's Public Role
2. The Public World: an idea under pressure
3. Drama in Public Worlds. -Part II Performance, the Academy, and the Politics of Austerity
4. Drama Worlds As Public Worlds
5. Confronting Corporate Neo-liberalism in Jim Nolan's Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (2016)
6. (Re)Public Worlds: Drama as Ethical Encounter
7. Beyond Deficit Culture: Conceptualising Collectives
8. Beyond Repair: A Critical Performance Manifesto. .
