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CONTESTING PERFORMANCE - GLOBAL SITES OF RESEARCH
Edited by Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms and C.J.W.-L. Wee

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (November 2009)
Series: Performance Interventions (eds: Elaine Aston & Bryan Reynolds)
Hardback 280 pages RRP: UKP55
ISBN:9780230008458

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=276431

CONTESTING PERFORMANCE is a landmark collection of essays by international
scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in
the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Aimed at students and
researchers around the world, the collection functions as a critical reader
on diverse, localised approaches to studying performance, while also
revealing networks of practical and theoretical concerns that contest
dominant paradigms of performance studies.

CONTENTS:
Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization; J.McKenzie,
C.J.W.-L.Wee & H.Roms

PART I: INSTITUTIONALIZING PERFORMANCE STUDIES
The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and
Politics; D.Taylor

Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the
University of Sydney; G.McAuley

The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; H.Roms

Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the 'Americanization' of
the American University; S.Jackson

Performance Studies in Japan; U.Tadashi & T.Yuichiro

PART II: CONTESTING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THROUGH PERFORMANCE
Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in
Australia; E.Scheer & P.Eckersall

Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Slovenian Journal
Maska; B.Kunst

'Say as I Do': Performance Research in Singapore; R.Langenbach & P.Rae
The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany; S.Peters

Translate, or Else: Marking the Global Troubles of Performance Research in
Croatia; Č.Feldman & M.Blažević

PART III: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of
Hybridity; K.Amine

Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian
Dance in Southeast Asia; S.Murgiyanto

Word and Action in Israeli Performance; S.Aronson-Lehavi & F.Rokem

Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in
Contemporary South Africa; L.Kruger

Editors:
JON MCKENZIE is Associate Professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he teaches courses in performance theory, new
media, and civil disobedience. He is author of Perform or Else: From
Discipline to Performance and such articles as 'Democracy's Performance' and
'Global Feeling: (Almost) All You Need is Love.'

HEIKE ROMS lectures in Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK.
Her writing has appeared in Ballett/Tanz, Frakcija, Inter, Live Art
Magazine, Maska, Performance Research, and in edited collections.

C. J. W.-L. WEE is Associate Professor of English in the National Institute
of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author
of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern and The Asian Modern:
Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore.

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