Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810861497)

This contributed volume is a collection of international writings on dance, human rights, and social justice in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book illuminates and analyzes dance in contexts of oppression and its subversion, as well as in situations promoting access to dance, and those encouraging healing from human rights abuses through movement.

Author: Naomi Jackson
ISBN-10: 0810861496
ISBN-13: 9780810861497
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2008
Pages: 398
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 96

About the Author
Naomi Jackson, Ph.D. in performance studies, is associate professor in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University. She is the author of Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y (2002). Toni Shapiro-Phim, Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, is director of research and archiving at the Khmer Arts Academy in Takhmao, Cambodia. She is the co-author of Dance in Cambodia (1999).