Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times

Elin Diamond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, USA.Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Candice Amich is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, USA.

• Introduction.- Part I. Affect, Performance and the Neoliberal State.- Chapter 1. The Affective Performance of State Love; Sue-Ellen Case.- Chapter 2. ‘Not Now, Not Ever’; Denise Varney.- Chapter 3. Performing Sovereignty against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception; Sandra D’urso.- Chapter 4. Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan; Nobuko Anan.- Chapter 5. Nisti Stêrk’s Affective Spaces in For Sweden – With the Times (För Sverige i tiden!); Christina Svens.- Part II. Violence and Performance Activism.- Chapter 6. Raging On; Diana Taylor.- Chapter 7. The Limits of Witness; Candice Amich.- Chapter 8. Protesting violence; Bishnupriya Dutt.- Chapter 9. My Cunt, My Rules!; Tiina Rosenberg.- Part III. Global Spectacles.- Chapter 10. Mapping Abramović, From Affect to Emotion; Marla Carlson.- Chapter 11. Virtuosity: Dance, Entrepreneurialism, and Nostalgia in Stage Irish Performance; Aoife Monks.- Chapter 12. Neoliberal post-feminism, neo-burlesque, and the politics of affect in the performances of Moira Finucane; Sarah French.- Chapter 13. Affecting the Apparatus; Antje Budde.- Chapter 14. Buy One, Get One Free; Urmimala Sarkar.- Part IV. Resistance and Theatre Politics.- Chapter 15. When Will They Hear Our Voices?; Charlotte Canning.- Chapter 16. Voices of the 880,000 Won Generation; Jung-Soon Shim.- Chapter 17. A woman artist in the neoliberal Chilean jungle; María José Contreras.- Chapter 18. Female Actors in Swaang; Vibha Sharma.- Part V. Affect and Site-Specific Performance.- Chapter 19. Feminism, Assemblage, and Performance; Elin Diamond.- Chapter 20. Feeling Out of Place; Shonagh Hill.- Chapter 21. Between the Flesh and the Remains; Ana Bernstein.- Chapter 22. Precarity, Performance and Activism in Recent Works by Ito Tari and Yamashiro Chikako; Rebecca Jennison.

“This volume gathers powerful scholarship by a global roster of writers, also including Antje Budde, Sue-Ellen Case, Charlotte Canning, Sandra D’Urso, Sarah French, Rebecca Jennison, Aoife Monks, and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi. It details and analyses an extraordinary array of performance and art practices. It tells a resounding horror story about the global reach of neoliberalism, the disparity it brings, and the precarity it multiplies, especially for women. … it delivers the powerful, inspiring affect of feminist resilience and resistance.” (Jen Harvie,Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)