04684nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-75229-2 DE-He213 20251030114619.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241207s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031752292 978-3-031-75229-2 10.1007/978-3-031-75229-2 doi PN2181-2193 AN bicssc PER011000 bisacsh ATD thema Coupe, Alexander. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 88965 The Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern Ireland [electronic resource] / by Alexander Coupe. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 281 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Contemporary Performance InterActions, 2634-5889 Ch 1: Interdependent Inequalities & Inequalities of Dependency -- Ch 2: Troubled Masculinities: Theatre and the Uses and Abuses of Crisis -- Ch 3: Staging Grief and Grievance: Gender, Remembrance and Remembrance Agendas -- Ch 4: Stitched Up: Class and Compromise in Feminist Performance Making -- Ch 5: ‘It’s All Quite Ordinary’: Queering Normalisation in the ‘Post-Conflict’ City -- Ch 6: Resolutely Entangled: Performing Borders in the Shadow of Brexit. This book examines theatre and performance produced since the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in the context of growing discontent with the failure of the peace in Northern Ireland to deliver genuinely transformative forms of social justice. The economic expansion that attended the peace accord propelled the growth of the region’s theatre and performance sector and assisted in increasing the representation of women and LGBTQ+ people across the arts. Despite this, much of the performance work produced since 1998 has illuminated the darker social consequences of Northern Ireland’s embrace of a specifically neoliberal vision of a ‘post-conflict’ society. Existing scholarship has already highlighted the role of theatre and performance in drawing attention to the misogyny and homophobia that has underwritten political antagonism in the North since partition. Instead, this book offers a sustained examination of contemporary performance makers that have engaged specifically with the reconstruction of gender norms amidst the region’s political and economic transformation. The story it tells is of an emerging current in theatre, performance art, and dance consisting of work concerned not only with uncovering the morbid symptoms of the neoliberal peace but also embodying those messy and everyday conditions of co-dependency, vulnerability and solidarity that both patriarchal nationalisms and androcentric individualism seek to deny. Alexander Coupe is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research and teaching encompass contemporary theatre and performance in Britain and Ireland, with an emphasis on gender, conflict transformation and cultural policy. Before working in Liverpool, he was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he also acquired his PhD. His work has been published in a range of academic journals including Research in Drama Education, Cultural Trends, and Études irlandaises. Theater History. 66689 Theater. 66691 Identity politics. Great Britain History. 66701 Contemporary Theatre and Performance. National and Regional Theatre and Performance. 84344 Politics and Gender. 70207 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031752285 Printed edition: 9783031752308 Printed edition: 9783031752315 Contemporary Performance InterActions, 2634-5889 88966 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75229-2 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 65729 65729