Performing care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance

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Synopsis: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even ‘fake’ and ‘staged’.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781526146816
Related ISBNs:: 9781526146793, 9781526146809, 9781526163967
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/01/24
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Amanda Stuart Fisher
Edited by:: James Thompson