Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism

ISBN-13: 9780190840143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Anusha Kedhar

Recenzje

Flexible Bodies is the first monograph that skillfully and boldly examines the South Asian dance sector in the UK by centring the lives, labours, material conditions, artistries and hybrid postcolonialities of the dancers at the intersections of British multiculturalism and neoliberalism. Kedhar's dexterity to bring together complex ethnographic fieldwork, historiography, performance analysis and political economic analysis is commendable. Thoroughly researched, evocatively written and compellingly argued, the study signals the futures of dance studies as fundamentally interdisciplinary and places the racialisations of danced labour at its heart.

O autorze

Anusha Kedhar is Associate Professor of Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research examines Indian dance and dancers at the intersection of transnationalism, globalization, race, labor, migration, gender, and sexuality.