Overview
- Brings together the work of scholars, activists, artists, and artivists.
- Represents an important intervention in the field of performance and human rights.
- Bridges contemporary sociopolitical movements and theories
Part of the book series: Contemporary Performance InterActions (CPI)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly chapters with artists’ manifestos or “interruptions” it promotes the idea of the collective work between academia and social movements. Not only is it very timely, theoretically savvy, and well written, it also brings together scholars, activists, artists, and artivists in a very fluid, collective approach, something many of us strive to do.”
— Paola S. Hernández, University of Wisconsin, USA
Winner of the Excellence in Editing Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and recipient of an Honourable Mention for the Patrick O'Neill Prize administered by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
Project Artists:
- The Great Collective Cough-In – L.M. Bogad
- Le Temps d’une Soupe – ATSA
- For Freedoms – Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman
- Down with Self-Management! Re-Booting Ourselves as Feminist Servers – subRosa
- Journey for Activism and Sustainability Escola de Ativismo
- Unstoppable – micha cárdenas, Patrisse Cullors, Chris Head and Edxie Betts
- Listen to Black Women – Syrus Marcus Ware
- Notes on Sustainable Tools – Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, with Suné Woods
- The Mirror Shield Project – Cannupa Hanska Luger
- The Human Billboard Project – Leah Decter, with Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group
Reviews
“Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas is a timely, compelling, and insightful collection of essays focused on the achievements, tactics, and sustainable strategies of activist performance that emerged in the aftermath of the global Occupy movement.” (Andrea Terry, RACAR, Vol. 46 (1), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Natalie Alvarez is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Ryerson University’s School of Performance, Canada.
Claudette Lauzon is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Keren Zaiontz is Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Film and Media and the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at Queen’s University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
Book Subtitle: Performance Actions in the Americas
Editors: Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon, Keren Zaiontz
Series Title: Contemporary Performance InterActions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11557-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11556-2Published: 06 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11557-9Published: 25 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5870
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5889
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 343
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights