Performing Human Rights

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing.

Autorentext

Anika Marschall works as assistant professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where she teaches in the MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy and the BA Media and Culture.

Inhalt

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Human rights and European bordering

2: The Centre for Political Beauty

3: Human rights and the politics of listening

4: Lawrence Abu Hamdan

5: Human rights and institutional imagination

6: New World Summit: envisioning statelessness

We have work to do: commitment to a healing labour

Bibliography

Index