Performing Care - (Studies in Imperialism) by Amanda Stuart Fisher & James Thompson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Performing care</i> explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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'.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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. Advancing our understanding of performance as a mode of care, this book challenges us to rethink the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogate the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from 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'. Drawing on interdisciplinary debates and discussion, the contributors consider how the field of performance, the aesthetic and ethico-political structures might be challenged by an examination of inter-human care. By placing socially-engaged performance in dialogue with theories and practices of care, the contributors not only consider how performance operates as a mode of caring for others, but how debates between the theory and practice of care and performance making might foster a greater understanding of how the caring encounter is embodied and experienced.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'... 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 (Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.) '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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama James Thompson is Professor of Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester
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