Performing Statecraft: The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens, and States (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350285200)

The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists.

Treating theatre as both an art form and a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the embodied dimensions of governance, the stagecraft of revolution, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms. It brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a play about global conflict, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces.

Author: James R. III Ball
ISBN-10: 135028520X
ISBN-13: 9781350285200
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2024
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d