Performing ruins /

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the authors fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe, investigate, and reflect upon live performance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Simon David, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Performing landscapes.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Ruining the Project, Subjectivities, Fields and Methods
  • 2. Ruins in Context
  • Context in Ruins
  • 3. Performing the Antiquary: Classical Ruins in the Greek Imaginary
  • 4. Natures Ruins
  • 5. Dissonance and Contestation: Ruining Heritage and its Alternatives
  • 6. Legacies of War: Performing Balkan Ruins
  • 7. Ruins of Capital
  • 8. After Communism and the Cold War: a Ruined Inheritance
  • 9. Conclusion: Ruining the Ruin or Pausing at a Partial View
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