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Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age: Imagining Alternatives book cover

1st Edition

Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age Imagining Alternatives

By Cami Rowe Copyright 2023
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge
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This book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. As political communications are increasingly conducted in online environments,‘post-truth’ performances become evermore central to democratic processes. It is therefore essential to reconsider the political potency of performance and theatricality in... Read more

Part I: Political Populism through the Lens of Performance 

1.Performance and Politics 

2.Populism and Performance  

3.Encounter and Engagement 

Part II: Political Embodiment in Digital Populist Contexts 

4.Embodiment and Perception: Bringing the Inside Out 

5.Embodiment and Relationality: Bringing the Outside In 

Part III: The Affective and Aesthetic Dimensions of Populism and Performance 

6.Fear and Failure 

7.Pleasure and Beauty

Biography

Cami Rowe works across the disciplines of Theatre, Performance and International Politics. She holds research degrees in International Politics and Theatre. Based at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, her research addresses the theatrical elements of global politics and the efficacy of performance interventions.

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