Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance

PART I: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING CONTEXTS 1.1 Interventions Re-Imagining Political Subjectivities: Relationality, Reflexivity And Performance In Rural Brazil; Alex Flynn Performing Transformation: Cultivating A Paradigm Of Education For Cooperation And Sustainability In A Brazilian Community; Dan Baron Cohen Embodying Protest: Culture And Performance Within Social Movements; Jeffrey Juris 1.2 Development And Governance Resistant Acts In Post-Genocide Rwanda; Ananda Breed Embodiment, Intellect And Emotion: Thinking About Possible Impacts Of Theatre For Development In Three Projects In Africa; Jane Plastow Governance, Theatricality, And Fantasma In Mafia Dance; Stavroula Pipyrou PART II: THEATRE AS PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL REFLECTION - CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES 2.1 Theatre And Tradition: Politics And Aesthetics Ethical Self-Cultivation As The Politics Of Engaged Theatre: How Theatre Engages Refugee Politics; Jonas Tinius The Invisible Performance/ The Invisible Masterpiece: Visibility, Concealment, And Commitment In Graffiti And Street Art; Rafael Schacter Whose Theatre Is It Anyway? Ancient Chorality Versus Modern Drama; Clare Foster 2.2 Political Theatricality Pussy Riot's Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest And Juridical Metaperformance; Milo Rau Reinventing The Show Trial: Putin And Pussy Riot; Catherine Schuler Theatre In The Arab World - Perspectives/Portraits From Lebanon, Syria, And Tunisia; Rolf Hemke 2.3 Theatre As Ethnographic Method - Ethnography As Theatrical Practice For A Verbatim Ethnography; Nick Long The Anthropologist As Ensemble Member: Anthropological Experiments With Theatre Makers; Caroline Gatt