Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater - Brossura

Da Costa, Dia

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ISBN 10: 0252082109 ISBN 13: 9780252082108

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Bhutan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people. As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make street theater a crucial site for considering what counts as creativity in the cultural politics of creative economy. Da Costa explores the precarious lives, livelihoods, and ideologies at the intersection of heritage projects, planning discourse, and activist performance. By analyzing the creators, performers, and activists involved--individuals at the margins of creative economy as well as society--Da Costa builds a provocative argument. Their creative economy practices may survive, challenge, and even reinforce the economies of death, displacement, and divisiveness used by the urban poor to survive.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dia Da Costa is an associate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Alberta and the author of Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India .

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0252082109
• ISBN 13: 9780252082108
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 284
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile