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Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.

Bildung gehort zu den drangenden sozialen Fragen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Folgerichtig hat die soziologische Bildungsforschung in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten einen enormen Aufschwung erfahren. Derzeit gehort sie zu einem der innovativsten Bereiche in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorie- und Modellbildung, Methodenentwicklung, Datenerhebung und bei den empirischen Erkenntnissen. Gleichwohl gibt es zahlreiche Leerstellen und Verengungen der soziologischen Bildungsforschung. Die Beitrage des Bandes geben daher nicht nur einen Uberblick uber die aktuelle soziologische Bildungsforschung,...

The body in performance. The performing body. The body of the audience. How do these three, overlapping bodies determine how we understand the theatrical experience? In important ways, theatrical representations of the body and embodied performance allow audiences, performers, and scholars to consider how identity, authenticity, and physical experience intersect with understandings of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Using case studies including Marlon Brando's seminal Method performance in A Streetcar Named Desire, and the Wooster Group's recreation of Hamlet starring...

Starting with a premise that memory holds such a privileged place in contemporary experience, Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory explores the intersections between contemporary theatre and performance, the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, and current preoccupations with the politics of memory across the globe. After offering a fresh critical snapshot of the major theoretical foundations for the study of memory today, the book presents vivid theatrical examples from across the globe and compellingly illustrates the centrality of memory for the theatre as well as the vital...

Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.