Communities, Performance and Practice

Enacting Communities

Kerrie Schaefer

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
07 April 2022

Theatre Studies; Theatre direction & production

This book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge

to critical analysis of community performance practice. The concept of community as a form of

class-based solidarity has been hollowed out by postmodernism’s questioning of grand

narratives and poststructuralism’s celebration of difference. Alongside the critique of a notion

of community has been a critical re-signification of community, following the thinking of

philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy who conceives of community not as common being but as being-in-common. The concept of community as being-in-common generates questions that have

been taken up by feminist geographers, J.K. Gibson-Graham, in theorising a post-capitalist

approach to community-based development. These questions and approaches guide the

analyses in researched case studies of community performance practice. The book revises

theoretical debates that have defined the field of community theatre and performance.

It asks how the critical re-signification of community aligns with these debates and, at the same

time, opens new modes of critical analysis of community theatre and performance practice.

By: Kerrie Schaefer
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2022
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 332g
ISBN: 9783030957568
ISBN 10: 303095756X
Pages: 201
Publication Date: 07 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kerrie Schaefer has a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. Before relocating to the UK in 2007, she was Lecturer in Drama at the University of Newcastle, NSW. She is currently an Associate Professor in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.