1st Edition
Performing Human Rights Artistic Interventions into European Asylum
By Anika Marschall
Copyright 2024
212 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing.
This study is situated in the contemporary discourse of asylum and political art practices. It argues for the need to reimagine human rights as performative and... Read more
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Human rights and European bordering
2: The Centre for Political Beauty
3: Human rights and the politics of listening
4: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
5: Human rights and institutional imagination
6: New World Summit: envisioning statelessness
We have work to do: commitment to a healing labour
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Anika Marschall works as assistant professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where she teaches in the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy and the BA Media and Culture.
