
Performing Human Rights
Artistic Interventions into European Asylum
Anika Marschall(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-0-367-62687-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing.
This study is situated in the contemporary discourse of asylum and political art practices. It argues for the need to reimagine human rights as performative and embodied forms of recognition and practical honouring of our shared vulnerability and co-dependency. It contributes to the debate of theatre and migration, by understanding that contemporary asylum issues are complex and context specific, and that they do not only pertain to the refugee, migrant, asylum seeker or stateless person but also to privileged constituencies, institutional structures, forms of organisation and assembly.
The book presents a unique mixed-methods approach that focuses equally on performance analyses and on political philosophy, critical legal studies and art history - and thus speaks to a range of politically interested scholars in all four fields.
This study is situated in the contemporary discourse of asylum and political art practices. It argues for the need to reimagine human rights as performative and embodied forms of recognition and practical honouring of our shared vulnerability and co-dependency. It contributes to the debate of theatre and migration, by understanding that contemporary asylum issues are complex and context specific, and that they do not only pertain to the refugee, migrant, asylum seeker or stateless person but also to privileged constituencies, institutional structures, forms of organisation and assembly.
The book presents a unique mixed-methods approach that focuses equally on performance analyses and on political philosophy, critical legal studies and art history - and thus speaks to a range of politically interested scholars in all four fields.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
8 s/w Abbildungen, 8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-62687-7 (9780367626877)
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Person
Anika Marschall works as assistant professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where she teaches in the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy and the BA Media and Culture.
Content
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Human rights and European bordering
2: The Centre for Political Beauty
3: Human rights and the politics of listening
4: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
5: Human rights and institutional imagination
6: New World Summit: envisioning statelessness
We have work to do: commitment to a healing labour
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Human rights and European bordering
2: The Centre for Political Beauty
3: Human rights and the politics of listening
4: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
5: Human rights and institutional imagination
6: New World Summit: envisioning statelessness
We have work to do: commitment to a healing labour
Bibliography
Index