The Retreat of Social Democracy
Manchester University Press
Published on 27. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7190-5032-9 (ISBN)
Description
Deindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. How have these companies converted derelict factories into spaces of theatrical production? How do they connect their work to the industrial work that once occurred there? How do those connections manifest in theatrical events, and how do such events give shape and meaning to ongoing redevelopment projects? This book develops an understanding of the relationship between theatre and redevelopment that goes beyond accusations of gentrification or celebrations of radical resistance. Ultimately, Calder argues that deindustrialisation and redevelopment depend on theatrical events and performative acts to make ongoing change intelligible and navigable.
Working memories brings together some of current theatre scholarship's fundamental concerns while demonstrating the significance of those concerns to an interdisciplinary readership. -- .
Working memories brings together some of current theatre scholarship's fundamental concerns while demonstrating the significance of those concerns to an interdisciplinary readership. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5032-9 (9780719050329)
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Content
The golden age of social democracy; end of the golden age; the turn to the left; challenge from the left - the greens and social democracy - ideological retreat of the left in the 1980s; warfare on welfare?; social democratic responses to globalization; changes in party organization; the decline of social democracy.