Performance and Activism

Name: Performance and Activism
SKU: 9780739133576
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Author: Kamran Afary
ISBN: 9780739133576

Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvKamran Afary

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Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another facet of the events, the birth of a dynamic grassroots activist and community organizing movement that has been little noticed by academics or even by the press. It also focuses on the theatrical production of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, a performance created by Anna Deavere Smith. Performance and Activism analyzes a rich, eclectic, and ongoing ensemble of local activist struggles in the context of the history and political economy of Los Angeles. Building on the important critical urban studies work of Mike Davis and Edward Soja, it also draws on Dwight Conquergood's writings on performance ethnography to theorize the political work of grassroots formations such as alternative/underground media collectives, gang truce parties/picnics, and women-organized prisoner support and court watch groups, such as Mothers Reclaiming Our Children. The book focuses on these events through the inter-disciplinary approach of performance studies, highlighting "performance-conscious activisms" that help bridge the enormous class, race, and gender divides of our society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-07-16
Mått155 x 230 x 19 mm
Vikt392 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739133576

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Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Teater inom Kultur
Övrig scenkonst inom Kultur
Våld och övergrepp inom Samhälle och politik

Chapter 1 Chapter One. Introduction and Roadmap to the WorkChapter 2 Chapter Two. A Historical Political Economy of Los AngelesChapter 3 Chapter Three. Performing Peace: Gang Truce in Watts and BeyondChapter 4 Chapter Four. The Gang Truce Movement as a Space for Dialogue and ActivismChapter 5 Chapter Five. Performing Motherhood: Creating Uprising Textualities and Reclaiming their ChildrenChapter 6 Chapter Six. Performing Twilight Los Angeles: Walking in the Words of a Sad and Beautiful PoemChapter 7 Chapter Seven. Conclusion: Remembrance and Reinterpretation

Afary’s contribution of performance-conscious activism and activist-conscious performance gets to the core utility of performance for social change and activism as embodied praxis. This important project deepens and extends our collective understanding of performance in and as activism and the ways in which such intention is dynamized on the grassroots level. Performance and Activism should quickly become standard reading for those in performance studies, cultural studies, and cultural geography, amongst other disciplinary formations, interested in the confluence and conflicts of cultural identity in place and space, and the ways in which performance can be used as a critical lens of seeing and transforming the world.

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