{"product_id":"9780810146044-restaging-the-future","title":"Restaging the Future","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain\u003cbr\u003ePost-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. This book interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Louise Owen traces the uneasy entanglement of performance with neoliberalism's marketization of social life. Focusing on this political moment, Owen guides readers through a wide range of performance works crossing multiple forms, genres, and spaces—from European dance tours, to Brazilian favelas, to the streets of Liverpool—attending to their distinct implications for the reenvisioned future in whose wake we now live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Analyzing this array of participatory dance, film, music, public art, and theater projects, Owen uncovers unexpected affinities between community-based, experimental, and avant-garde movements. \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future \u003c\/i\u003eprovides key historical context for these performances, their negotiations of their political moment, and their themes of insecurity, identity, and inequality, created in a period of profound ideological and socioeconomic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41764064002145,"sku":"9780810146044","price":26.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34851675.jpg?v=1762829994","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780810146044-restaging-the-future","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}