{"product_id":"restaging-the-future-neoliberalization-theater-and-performance-in-britain-paperback-softback-9780810146044","title":"Restaging the Future; Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810146044","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRestaging the Future\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNeoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLouise Owen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810146044\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.258 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Louise Owen’s often dizzyingly brilliant book makes a distinctive contribution to current scholarship on performance in the context of neoliberalization. Indeed, what is impressive is both the breadth and depth of scholarship that \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future\u003c\/i\u003e draws on to intervene in one of the most important and pressing debates in present-day theater and performance studies.” - Heike Roms, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat's Welsh for Performance: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales, 1968–2008\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Louise Owen traces the uneasy entanglement of performance with neoliberalism's marketization of social life. Focusing on this political moment, Owen guides readers through a wide range of performance works crossing multiple forms, genres, and spaces—from European dance tours, to Brazilian favelas, to the streets of Liverpool—attending to their distinct implications for the reenvisioned future in whose wake we now live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Analyzing this array of participatory dance, film, music, public art, and theater projects, Owen uncovers unexpected affinities between community-based, experimental, and avant-garde movements. \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future \u003c\/i\u003eprovides key historical context for these performances, their negotiations of their political moment, and their themes of insecurity, identity, and inequality, created in a period of profound ideological and socioeconomic change.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1: ‘\u003cbr\u003eDouble shuffle’\u003cbr\u003e: dancing around entrepreneurialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2: ‘\u003cbr\u003ePlaces, like property prices, go up and down’\u003cbr\u003e: public art, regeneration and place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3: ‘\u003cbr\u003eCan culture be our weapon?’\u003cbr\u003e: culture and value across borders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4: ‘\u003cbr\u003ePrivatised politics’\u003cbr\u003e: verbatim theatre in the public sphere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670842405144,"sku":"9780810146044","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/restaging-the-future-neoliberalization-theater-and-performance-in-britain-paperback-softback-9780810146044","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}