The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

Shirin M. Rai is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Milija Gluhovic is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. Silvija Jestrovic is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

• Introduction by Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, Shirin Rai, and Michael Saward Part I: Performativity/Theatricality 1. Lisa Skwirblies - Colonial Theatricality 2. Ameet Parameswaran - Theatricality, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Beyond Theatre of Roots 3. Adrian Kear - Authenticity/Theatricality: World Spectatorship and the Drama of the Image 4. Kate Leader - Law, Presence to Absence: The Case of the Disappearing Defendant 5. Sophie Nield - Towards a Theatrical History of the Picket Line 6. Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga - Protest and Performativity 7. Jean-Pascal Daloz - Representation Part II: Identities 8. Katie Beswick - Class, Race, and Marginality: Informal Street Performances in the City 9. Carole Spary - Gender, Politics, Performance: Embodiment and Representation in Political Institutions 10. Edgaras Klivis - National Identity 11. Ioana Szeman - Performance and Citizenship: The Roma in Europe 12. Yana Meerzon - From Exile to Migration - Staging (the) Face of the Human Waste Part III: Sites 13. Emma Cox - Island Impasse: Refugee Detention and the Thickening Border 14. Kimberly Wedeven Segall - Media Sites: Political Revivals of American Muslim Women 15. Nirmal Puwar - The Force of the Somatic Norm: Women as Space Invaders in the UK Parliament 16. Matthew Watson - "The Market": Eighteenth-Century Insights into the Performance of Market Practices 17. Charlotte Heath-Kelly - Staging Memorialisation: Performing the War on Terror and Resilient Nationalism 18. Matt Davies - Urban Sites of the Everyday and the International: The Other City and the Aesthetic Subject 19. Anna Leander - The Politics of Neo-Liberal Rituals: Performing the Institutionalization of Liminality at Trade Fairs 20. Catherine Chinara Charrett - Empire: A Performative Approach to Imperial Frontiers and Formations in Palestine Part IV: Scripts 21. Desiree Lewis - Nativism: African Bodies and Photographic Performance 22. Willmar Sauter - Immersion 23. Stuart Elden - Ceremony, Genealogy, Political Theology 24. Erzsébet Strausz - Pedagogy: (Mis)performing the Contemporary University 25. Julia C. Strauss - Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy: The View from China and Beyond 26. John Uhr - Political Leadership: "Saving the Show" 27. Vicky Angelaki - Adaptation and Environment: Landscape, Community and Politics in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm by Duncan Macmillan (2019) Part V: Body/Voice/Gesture 28. Sruti Bala - Hurling and Hailing: Scenes of Interruption and Interpellation 29. Alan Finlayson - Performing Political Ideologies 30. M.I. Franklin - Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics 31. Lisa Fitzpatrick - Eroticism, and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body 32. Bishnupriya Dutt - Performing Gestures at Protests and Other Sites 33. Bree Hadley - What's in a Name?: The Politics of Labelling in Disability Performance 34. Stephen Coleman - Taking a Position: Contemporary Dance and the Communication of Deep Political Feeling 35. Julia Peetz - The Body Politic and JFK's Bad Back: Questions of Embodiment in the Performance of Politics Part VI: Affect 36. Jordana Blejmar - Postmemory: Politics and Performance in Latin America 37. Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison - Performing Political Empathy 38. Narelle Warren - Care 39. Nobuko Anan - The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan 40. Emma Crewe and Nicholas Sarra - Constituency Performances: The "Heart" of Democratic Politics 41. James Brassett - Comedy and the Performative Politics of Brexit 42. Illan rua Wall - Atmospheres of Protest 43. Goran Petrovic Lotina - Performance and Populism: Choreographing Popular Forms of Collectivity