Performance and Politics, Power and Protest

Edited by Sonja Kleij & Kayla Rush




The Performance-Politics Nexus and the Double Helix: Locating Performance and Politics, Power and Protest    [essay/pdf]
Kayla Rush & Sonja Kleij

Carnival as a Practice of the Possible: Belfast, the Beat, and the Politics of Civic Celebration     [essay/pdf]
Sheelagh Colclough & Sarah Feinstein

Performing Debate about Power and Protest at the Amsterdam Municipal Theatre in 1650    [essay/pdf]
Sonja Kleij

"A Right Down Regular Queen": Performance and Monarchy in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers    [essay/pdf]
Lynneth Miller Renberg

Performing the Early Modern Past Onscreen: History and the Politics of the Present    [essay/pdf]
Romano Mullin

The Performativity of Female Power and Public Participation through Elizabethan Royal Progresses    [essay/pdf]
Dustin M. Neighbors

'They're Performing Again': Framing Moral Outrage in Arts Funding Protests    [essay/pdf]
Kayla Rush

'Invasive' Writing: Exploring Subjectivity, erformance and Politics in the Art of Jiří Kovanda    [essay/pdf]
Maruška Svašek

(review)

Review of Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action: Case Studies in Dialectical Activism (by Benjamin Heim Shepard)    [essay/html]
Nora Almeida



<notes on contributors>

» Nora Almeida is a librarian, writer, performance artist, and environmental activist. She is an Associate Professor at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY) and a long-time volunteer for Interference Archive. She writes about critical pedagogy, social justice, performance, neoliberalism, and place. Her first book The Social Movement Archive, co-authored with Jen Hoyer, was published by Litwin books in 2021.

» Sheelagh Colclough is an artist and PhD Researcher at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.

» Sarah Feinstein, PhD, is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.

» Sonja Kleij is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, and Lecturer in English Language and Culture at Radboud University. Her research focuses on power relations and performance in the early modern period, with a special interest in gender, trauma, (international) politics, and the ways in which performance can voice public opinion. She has published on English and Dutch theatre and songs.

» Lynneth Miller Renberg is an assistant professor of history at Anderson University, with teaching and research interests in gender, dance, performance, emotion, and lay religion. Her publications include an edited collection with Routledge, The Cursed Carolers in Context, and articles in Sixteenth Century Journal, Church History and Religious Culture, and Dance Research Journal. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the North American Conference on British Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and Phi Alpha Theta. She is currently finishing a monograph on dance, gender, and sacrilege in English parishes between 1300-1600; this project was recently awarded the Founders' Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society.

» Romano Mullin completed his PhD in English Literature at Queen's University, Belfast in 2016. His thesis explores the cultural afterlives of the early modern period across literature, film and television in the twenty-first century, and examines how such texts refracted contemporary political and cultural shifts via an anti-nostalgic lens that re-visioned the period for a modern audience. His other research interests include Shakespeare on film, and within digital cultures — he has published work on both areas and is increasingly interested in how the digital sphere and social media platforms have created new horizons for research into audience engagement with Shakespeare and his works today.

» Dustin M. Neighbors is a postdoctoral visiting researcher with the Department of Philosophy, History, and Art at the University of Helsinki and an associate postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Neighbors is a historian of early modern (1500-1800) British and northern European history, specialising in gender and power, political and court culture with an emphasis on the performativity of gender and the public/private divide. Dr. Neighbors' current research comparatively and digitally investigates the hunting practices of noble women and human-animal relations within the distinct cultural and historical contexts of early modern northern Europe (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and northern Germany).

» Kayla Rush is an anthropologist and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at Dublin City University. She is an anthropologist of art, music, and performance, working at the intersection of body politics and cultural politics. Her current research examines private fees-based and for-profit rock music schools. Her first monograph, The Cracked Art World: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland, will be published by Berghahn in 2022.

» Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens University Belfast, UK. Her main research interests include migration, material culture, art and emotions. In the last ten years, her work has brought these strands together, exploring the mobility and agency of humans, artefacts and images in an era of intensifying globalization, transnational connectivity and environmental change. Her publications include Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space (2018, with Milena Komarova), Creativity in Transition (2016, with Birgit Meyer), Emotions and Human Mobility (2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects (2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), Postsocialism (2006) and Mixed Emotions (2005, with Kay Milton).









Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver; Temple University; Louisiana State University)
managing editor: Greg Langner (Antelope Valley College)
the city editor: Patrick Duggan (Northumbria University)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Missouri State University)
performance & pedagogy editor: TBD
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
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