TY - GEN N2 - This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities. DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1 DO - doi AB - This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities. T1 - Performing utopias in the contemorary Americas / DA - 2017. CY - New York, NY : AU - Beauchesne, Kim, AU - Santos, Alessandra, ET - First edition. CN - HX806 PB - Palgrave Macmillan, PP - New York, NY : PY - 2017. N1 - Includes index. ID - 807120 KW - Utopias KW - Utopias in literature. KW - Utopias in art. SN - 9781137568731 SN - 1137568739 SN - 1137571543 SN - 9781137571540 TI - Performing utopias in the contemorary Americas / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1 ER -