The Question of Dutch Politics as a Matter of Theatre
Theatre and Performance after the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Erschienen am 13. November 2017
102 Seiten
978-3-8288-6877-9 (ISBN)
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Starting from the notion of 'post-democracy' elaborated by Colin Crouch, which indicates an increasing tendency towards the deterioration of democratic principles and the narrowing of the public sphere, this book explores how, in the Dutch context, this process is influenced by theatre and performance practice, art policy and governmental action. It points out that, within discourses of post-democracy, aspects of depoliticisation are commonly assessed through theatrical concepts such as spectacle, play, game and theatre. At the same time, this work argues by an analysis of three performances, 'Wijksafari Utrecht' by Adelheid Roosen, a political protest by Quinsy Gario, and 'Labyrinth' by the refugee group 'We are Here Cooperative', that there might be a role for theatre in this age of depoliticisation. It proposes to scrutinise, based on the writings of Samuel Weber, a paradox of theatre. Namely, while concepts of theatre are applied to convey disapproval of government and politics, theatre has a possible emancipatory character to dispute the given order.
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Wigbertson Julian Isenia
The Quesiton of Dutch Politics as a Matter of Theatre
Theatre and Performance after the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Wigbertson Julian Isenia has an MA degree in Arts and Culture (University of Amsterdam), as well as bachelor degrees in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Theatre Studies. He received a scholarship from the Bekker-la Bastide fund to pursue his graduate studies. He is currently conducting his PhD research on Gendered and Sexual Citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Bonaire in the framework of a Dutch Research Council funded project.
Inhalt
- Intro
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1 DUTCH POLITICS AS A MATTER OF THEATRE
- 2 DIAGNOSING A POLITICAL MALAISE
- 2.1. The 2010 Dutch general election and its aftermaths
- 2.1.1 The Binnenhof deliberations
- 2.1.2 The coalition agreement
- 2.1.3 The Catshuis deliberations
- 2.2 Why post-democracy?
- 2.2.1 The Dutch Polder Model and the idea of governmentality
- 2.2.2 The trivialisation of politics: is it the media?
- 2.2.3 Active citizenship, participation society and apathy
- 2.3 The theatricalisation of politics. What theatre?
- 3 THE STATE ASSUMING A MORE CEREMONIAL AND THEATRICAL ROLE
- 3.1 The inheritance of the Rutte I cabinet
- 3.2 Wijksafari Utrecht by Adelheid Roosen
- 3.2.1 Zina Neemt de Wijk
- 3.2.2 Wijksafari en Tepito
- 3.3 The instrumentalisation of the arts?
- 3.3.1 Recent developments within citizen initiatives and participatory art
- 4 RE-POLITICISING THE PUBLIC SPACE
- 4.1 The Question of Democracy
- 4.2 Protest by Quinsy Gario
- 4.3 Politics as theatre, theatre as politics
- 5 THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS AND THE AESTHETICS OF POLITICS
- 5.1 Labyrinth by We are Here Cooperative and Nicolas Stemann
- 5.2 Citizenship, democracy, and humanity
- 5.2.1 Democracy: a distinction between human rights and the rights of the citizen?
- CONCLUSIONS
- WORKS CITED
