Theatre and Performance in the Neoliberal University

Kim Solga is Professor of English and Writing Studies at Western University, Canada.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: "Theatre & Performance, Crisis & Survival"Kim SolgaSECTION ONE: Face the Steamroller - Essays"Power and privilege in neoliberal perspective: the Laboratory for global performance and politics at Georgetown university"Asif Majid "Theatre training and performance practice in neoliberal Zimbabwean universities: survival strategies and frustrations"Nkululeko Sibanda "Television as theatre text in the austere academy: a curricular exploration"Hillary Miller "Faces between numbers: re-imagining theatre and performance as instruments of critical data studies within a liberal arts education"Richard C. Windeyer "Towards a concept of inefficiency in performance and dialogue practice" Linda Taylor "Masihambisane [Let’s walk]: walking the city as an interdisciplinary pedagogical experiment in Durban, South Africa"Miranda Young-Jahangeer and Bridget HornerSECTION TWO: Trust the Work – Case Studies "Living the interdiscipline: conceiving, developing, managing, and learning from a large-scale, multidisciplinary, scenario-based project supporting police de-escalation training in Ontario"Natalie Alvarez, interviewed by Kim Solga "Hul’q’umi’num’ language heroes: a successful collaboration between Elders, community organisations, and Canadian West Coast universities"Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta "Celebratory theatre: a response to neoliberalism in the arts"Yasmine Kandil and Hannah te Bokkel "The performative foreign language classroom as a site of creative disruption"Anna Santucci "Reimagining applied practices: a case study on the potential partnership between applied practices and education for sustainable development"Alex Cahill and Paul Warwick "Exacting collaboration: performance as pedagogy in interdisciplinary contexts"Zachary A. Dorsey "Working at the margins: theatre, social science and radical political engagement"Julia Gray and Pia Kontos "Devilish deals: art, research, and activism with/in the institution"Oona Hatton "The Verbatim Formula: caring for care leavers in the neoliberal university"Maggie Inchley, Sadhvi Dar, Susmita Pujara and Sylvan Baker "Emancipated spectators in the theatre history classroom"Susanne Shawyer "Surviving, but not thriving: the politics of care and the experience of motherhood in academia"Katharine Low and Diana Damian Martin "Writing wrongs: disruptive feminist teaching within the (anxious) ivory tower"Jayme KilburnAfterword: A Care Manifesto "Tactics: practical and imagined"Diana Damian Martin, Sharon Green, Clara Nizard, Theron Schmidt, Max Schulman and Kim Solga