Description
This special issue critically examines the notion of solidarity from and within the field of performance. Solidarity as a concept is ethically vacuous and in need of a clear ethical and political agenda. This issue specifically addresses questions concerning the ways that solidarity is ‘performed’ and the kinds of contributions the field of performance can make in working towards social equality. Across the various contributions, the issue sketches out the ways that solidarity is practised in and through performance as a potential generative force for social change. In discussing situated practices within various socio-political contexts, it examines a variety of solidary formations and bindings, such as within racial and religious minority groups, as well as solidarity existing across difference. It offers discussions of the ways solidarity is performed in colonial contexts, in post-disaster relief work, as well as in local activist groups.
CONTENTS:
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1 Editorial: On Solidarity
NOYALE COLIN AND STEFANIE GABRIELE
SACHSENMAIER
4 Solidarity in Performance: Considering activist processes in
neoliberal times
STEFANIE GABRIELE SACHSENMAIER
16 Solidarity as a Common Notion: The transindividual ‘we’ of
social movements in Southern Europe since 2011
BOJANA CVEJIĆ
26 Conversations and Convergences for Solidarity
YOUNGSOOK CHOI, CIAN DAYRIT, ANNIE JAEL KWAN
AND CUI YIN MOK
35 Who is Afraid of Mourning? Mourning as a site of solidarity in
South Asia
BRAHMA PRAKASH
45 Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi
Community: Memory, trauma and political economy
RÜYA KALINTAŞ
54 Utopian Performatives Matter: Creating solidarity with the
Korean/Japanese diaspora
BOMI CHOI
64 Defiant Joy and Care-Based Solidarity in Puerto Rican
Theatre
COLLEEN RUA
74 Confronting Coloniality’s Unpayable Debts: (Per)Forming
solidarity in a settler society
REBECCA STRUCH
85 Moving Together: Building a spirit of solidarity through sitespecific
performance in post-Katrina New Orleans
WESTON TWARDOWSKI
96 Becoming Us: Finding solidarity across difference
JACKY LANSLEY WITH FERGUS EARLY, JREENA GREEN,
ESTHER HUSS, INGRID MACKINNON AND TIM TAYLOR
111 Performing Solidarity
NOYALE COLIN
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REVIEWS
125 Sensation and Sensibility: Ron Athey’s archive of feeling
LAUREN DELAND
126 Reorientations and Reckonings in Response to Wild Weather
ALEXANDRA TÁLAMO
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128 Notes on Contributors
