1st Edition
Performance in a Militarized Culture
Introduction
Preface
Sarah Bay-Cheng
Performance in the Age of Intelligent Warfare
Introduction
Sara Brady
Lindsey Mantoan
In the Absence of the Gun: Performing Militarization
I. Sites of Conflict
Katherine Zien
Mises-en-scène of Militarization: Decommissioning US Military Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone
Alexis Bushnell
Justine Nakase
Military Aid: The Spatial Performances and Performativity of Contemporary Refugee Camps
Eylül Fidan Akinci
Sacred Children, Accursed Mothers: Performativities of Necropolitics and Mourning in Neoliberal Turkey
Elin Nicholson
Title: The Freedom Theatre and Cultural Resistance in Jenin, Palestine
Bart Pitchford
Tactical Performance Across a Revolutionary Timeline
II. Militarized History and Memory
Áine Sheil
How to do Things with Music Criticism: Performances of Victory in German Wagner Reception, 1918–33
Susanne Shawyer
"Stop the War in Chicago Please": Performative Protest and the Limits of Dissensus
Jessica Nakamura
Choreographies of Militarized Space: US Military Bases, Everyday Life, and Performance in Okinawa, Japan
Solveig Gade
Reviving the Tradition of the Battle Painting: The Militarization of Danish Culture
III. Performing the Soldier
tyler boudreau
Soldier Street Theatre
Lindsey Mantoan
No Easy Mission: Bin Laden, Exceptionalism, and Gendered Heroism in the Post-Heroic Age
Sarah Beck
Going Outside the Wire:
Service Members as Documentary Subjects in Black Watch and
ReEntry
Cami Rowe
Challenging the Characterizations of Military Service: A Critical Comparison of British and American Counter-Recruitment Efforts
Michael St. Clair
Strategic Simulation and the American Military Imaginary
Scott Magelssen
Performing Flight: Test Pilots, Commercial Airlines, and the Cold War
IV. The Militarization of the Everyday
Lindsay Livingston
Picking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Firearm Ownership in the Long Civil Rights Movement
Emily Klein
Failure, Future Tense: Adaptation, Affect, and Apathy in American Theatre’s Militarized Dystopias
Asher Warren
Weaponized Bureaucracy: Kill-Chains, Drones, and Tethers
Jacqueline Viskup
Re-staging Surveillance Tragedy as Critical Resistance
Kashif Powell
The Time to Break (Silence): Disavowing the Affects of Militarization and Death through the Performance of Black Existence
Afterword
Wendy S. Hesford
Constitutive Performance: Human Rights in a Militarized Culture
Biography
Sara Brady is Associate Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY).
Lindsey Mantoan is Assistant Professor at Linfield College.
