This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities - of political impingements on bodies,...

This book examines Australian feminist and queer theatrical works from 2004-2014, a period which has seen a significant breakthrough in the way that theatrical performance is viewed in Australia. Examining the work of prominent independent theatre companies and performers, the book explores the ways in which their work reflects and influences transformations in social and cultural attitudes towards sexuality, gender and feminism.

Performing the Secular explores the itineraries of 'the secular' within the modern world. Recent events such as the ongoing crises over the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church, the ire over the Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, the hijab controversy in Europe and the demolition of the Babri mosque in India by right-wing Hindu groups exposes the fragility of claims of a secular public sphere. The increasing public contestations of the secular ideal mobilize passionate performances through claims and counter-claims that confirm the importance of religion in public life. This volume...

Contemporary Irish, Northern Irish and British theatre is increasingly staging performances driven by traumatic experiences and events, both individual and collective. Often, these traumas are foregrounded through corporeal and psychic experiences, and relate to sexuality, abuse, racial/ethnic discriminations, mental illnesses and death. This new book analyses how contemporary theatre and performance in Ireland and the UK (including work by Anu Productions, Marina Carr, Sarah Kane, Laura Wade and Theatre of Witness) is addressing, and intervening, in experiences of private and public trauma.

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It will appeal to readers interested in performance studies, memory studies, gender studies, Vietnamese studies, and oral history.