PERFORMANCE RESEARCH VOL.27 ISSUE 5
ON SOLIDARITY

Editor: Noyale Colin,
Stefanie Sachsenmaier
Published by Routledge
132 pages
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 27:5
Softcover

Price: 95 lei


This special issue critically examines the notion of solidarity from and within the field of performance. Solidarity as a concept is ethically vacuous and in need of a clear ethical and political agenda. This issue specifically addresses questions concerning the ways that solidarity is ‘performed’ and the kinds of contributions the field of performance can make in working towards social equality. Across the various contributions, the issue sketches out the ways that solidarity is practised in and through performance as a potential generative force for social change. In discussing situated practices within various socio-political contexts, it examines a variety of solidary formations and bindings, such as within racial and religious minority groups, as well as solidarity existing across difference. It offers discussions of the ways solidarity is performed in colonial contexts, in post-disaster relief work, as well as in local activist groups.

CONTENTS:

p.1 Editorial: On Solidarity
NOYALE COLIN AND STEFANIE GABRIELE SACHSENMAIER

p.4 Solidarity in Performance: Considering activist processes in neoliberal times
STEFANIE GABRIELE SACHSENMAIER

p.16 Solidarity as a Common Notion: The transindividual 'we’ of social movements in Southern Europe since 2011
BOJANA CVEJIC

p.26 Conversations and Convergences for Solidarity
YOUNGSOOK CHOI, CIAN DAYRIT, ANNIE JAEL KWAN AND CUI YIN MOK

p.35 Who is Afraid of Mourning? Mourning as a site of solidarity in South Asia
BRAHMA PRAKASH

p.45 Theatre and Solidarity among the Transnational Alevi Community: Memory, trauma and political economy
RÜYA KALINTA?

p.54 Utopian Performatives Matter: Creating solidarity with the Korean/Japanese diaspora
BOMI CHOI

p.64 Defiant Joy and Care-Based Solidarity in Puerto Rican Theatre
COLLEEN RUA

p.74 Confronting Coloniality’s Unpayable Debts: (Per)Forming solidarity in a settler society
REBECCA STRUCH

p.85 Moving Together: Building a spirit of solidarity through sitespecific performance in post-Katrina New Orleans
WESTON TWARDOWSKI

p.96 Becoming Us: Finding solidarity across difference
JACKY LANSLEY WITH FERGUS EARLY, JREENA GREEN, ESTHER HUSS, INGRID MACKINNON AND TIM TAYLOR

p.111 Performing Solidarity
NOYALE COLIN