Performance Resistance And Refugees

Author : Suzanne Little
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100082344X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance, Resistance and Refugees written by Suzanne Little and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection. Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children’s theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, titled Off Stage, employs performance as a lens to analyse the wider field of refugee politics, including the relationship between forced migrants and the forced displacement of First Nations peoples that underpins the settler-colonial state, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, the role of the canon in art history and the spectacle of bordering practices. In doing so, it illuminates the strategic performativity—and nonperformativity—of the law, philosophy, the state and the academy more broadly in the exclusion and control of refugees. Taken together, the chapters in this volume draw on, and contribute to, a wide range of disciplines including theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, border studies and forced migration studies, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in all four fields.

Author : Jordana Silverstein
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464198
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugee Journeys written by Jordana Silverstein and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives. Mostly covering the period from 1970 to the present, the chapters provide readers with an understanding of the political, social and historical contexts that have brought us to the current day. This engaging collection of essays also considers possible ways to break existing policy deadlocks, encouraging readers to imagine a future where we carry vastly different ideas about refugees, government policies and national identities.

Author : A. Jeffers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230354823
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugees, Theatre and Crisis written by A. Jeffers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand.

Author : Navine Murshid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134502273
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Refugees in South Asia written by Navine Murshid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partition and post-colonial migrations – sometimes voluntary, often forced – have created borders in South Asia that serve to oppress rather than protect. Migrants and refugees feel their real home lies beyond the border, and liberation struggles continue the quest for freedoms that have proven to be elusive for many. States scapegoat refugees as "outsiders" for their own ends, justifying the denial of their rights, while academic discourse on refugees represents them either as victims or as terrorists. Taking a stance against such projections, this book examines refugees’ struggles for better living conditions and against marginalization. By analyzing protest and militarization among refugees, the book argues that they are neither victims without agency nor war entrepreneurs. Through interviews, surveys, and statistical analyses, it shows how states have manipulated refugee identity and resistance to promote the ideal of the nation-state, thereby creating protracted refugee crises. This is evident even in the most humanitarian state intervention in modern South Asia – India’s military intervention in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1971. The findings put forward provide the basis to understand the conditions under which violence can break out, and thereby have implications for host countries, donor countries, and aid organizations in the formulation of refugee‐policy. The book is of interest to scholars in the fields of South Asian studies, comparative politics, international relations, refugee studies, development studies, security studies and peace studies.

Author : Tom Scott-Smith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207134
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structures of Protection? written by Tom Scott-Smith and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement.

Author : Simon Behrman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138304178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Asylum written by Simon Behrman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of asylum in antiquity -- Sanctuary in England -- The nation-state origins of refugee law -- The evolution and impact of international refugee law -- The US sanctuary movement -- The sans-papiers

Author : Rachel Sharples
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837532249
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deter, Detain, Dehumanise written by Rachel Sharples and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, this body of work examines how Australia has politicised the right to seek asylum, to the detriment of asylum seekers and refugees as well as Australian citizens, and tentatively offers hope on how we might seek to normalise, legitimise and re-humanise the processes.

Author : Hannah Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526113236
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Go home? written by Hannah Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate toughness on immigration. The authors set out to explore the effects of such performances: on policy, on public debate, on pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. This book presents their findings, and provides insights into the practice of conducting research on such a charged and sensitive topic.

Author : Tom Pfister
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612496156
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eva and Otto written by Tom Pfister and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910–1991) and Otto Pfister (1900–1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans—Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic—who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing—directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation—also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.

Author : Sara Brady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351857843
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance in a Militarized Culture written by Sara Brady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status quo. Addressing the most commonplace of everyday interactions, from mobile phone calls to traffic cameras, this edited collection considers: How militarization appropriates and deploys performance techniques How performing arts practices can confront militarization The long and complex history of militarization How the war on terror has transformed into a values system that prioritizes the military The ways in which performance can be used to secure and maintain power across social strata Performance in a Militarized Culture draws on performances from North, Central, and South America; Europe; the Middle East; and Asia to chronicle a range of experience: from those who live under a daily threat of terrorism, to others who live with a distant, imagined fear of such danger.