Performing Care
New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance
James Thompson editor Amanda Stuart Fisher editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:24th Mar '20
Should be back in stock very soon
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’.
'... 13 rigorous essays that utilize theory, analysis, and critique to interrogate “care as embodied knowledge, and care as emotional labor” (p. 3). The collection effectively complicates discourse around philosophies of care, allowing space for the critical considerations of age, gender, abilities, and memories.'
CHOICE
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'This book is an invaluable addition to the relevance of our modality and contains many crossovers with which our practice is affiliated... The global COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the power that the arts hold in keeping
people creative, playful and, most importantly, connected. Care is ultimately about our relationship with others. This book is tantamount for exploring how and why it is so important to enmesh the arts within the caring professions.'
Dramatherapy
ISBN: 9781526146809
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
Weight: unknown
272 pages