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- Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Dissident Feminisms
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-32
- Part I: Politicizing Creative Economy
- Part II: Janam’s Ideology for Life
- 3. An Ideology for Life?
- pp. 85-110
- 4. Virtually Speechless
- pp. 111-137
- 5. Laughing at the Enemy
- pp. 138-162
- Part III: Budhan Theatre’s Creative Economy
- 6. A Hunger Called Theater
- pp. 165-189
- 7. The Good Women of Chharanagar
- pp. 190-209
- 8. Another Creative Economy?
- pp. 210-236
- Conclusion
- pp. 237-246
- Works Cited
- pp. 253-272
- About the Author
- pp. 285-288
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252099045
Related ISBN(s)
9780252040603, 9780252082108
MARC Record
OCLC
959611019
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2017-11-18
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016