Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare
Jenny Hughes
Jun 2020 · Routledge
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Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare brings together an international group of artists, activists and scholars to explore precarity in the contexts of applied and socially engaged theatre. The policy of austerity pursued by governments across the global North following the financial crisis of 2008 has renewed interest in issues of poverty, economic inequality and social justice. Emerging from European contexts of activism and scholarship, ‘precarity’ has become a shorthand term for the permanently insecure conditions of life under neoliberal capitalism and its associated stripping back of social welfare protections. This collection explores a range of theatre practice, including activist theatres, theatre and health projects, the community work of regional theatres, arts-led social care initiatives, people’s theatres and youth arts programmes. Comprising full-length chapters and shorter pieces, the collection offers new perspectives on social theatre projects as creative occasions of occupation that generate a sense of security in a precarious world.
This book was originally published as a special issue of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.
About the author
Jenny Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester, UK. She is Points and Practices editor of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance and publishes in the areas of theatre and economic justice; performance and war; activist performance; and aspects of applied theatre, especially theatre with young people living with risk and the histories of socially engaged theatre. Her recent publications include Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre (with Helen Nicholson, 2016) and a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review edited with Simon Parry, ‘Theatre, Performance and Activism’ (2015).
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