Neoliberalism and Global Theatres

1. Introduction: Heterotopic Transformations, The (Il)Liberal Neoliberal
Lara D. Nielsen

Part I. Institutional Strategies

2. Nintendo Museum: Intercultural Pedagogy, Neoliberal Citizenship, and a Theatre without Actors
Margaret Werry

3. Archeologies of Empire: Colonial Hollywood and the Neoliberal Academy
Sebastián Calderón Bentin

4. Neoliberalism, the Arts, and the Global University
Eng-Beng Lim

5. Branding the Revolution: Hair Redux
David Savran

Part II. Modes of Transmission

6. I Feel for You
Patrick Anderson

7. Staging a Moving Map in Byron Au Yong’s and Aaron Jafferis’s Stuck Elevator
Karen Shimakawa

8. Fighting for a Future in a Free Trade World
Patricia Ybarra

9. Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance
Thomas F. DeFrantz

Part III. Formal Economies

10. Model Dissent: Lưu Quang Vũ and the Melodramatic Performance of Renovation in Post-War Vietnam
Khai Thu Nguyen

11. Representational Practices and Real Abstractions in Early Eighteenth-Century London
Michal Kobialka

12. The Gift of the New Orleans Second Line
Margaret M. Olsen

13. Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy as Neoliberal Kaleidoscope
Catherine M. Cole

Part IV. Sites of Articulation

14. Teatro Visión and the Limits of Chicano Politics in Neoliberal Space
Jon D. Rossini

15. Repairing Teatro Oficina Perdiz
Nitza Tenenblat

16. Palimpsestic City: Nostalgia in Neoliberal Bangalore
Jisha Menon

17. Desiring the Stage: The Interplay of Mobility and Resistance
Rachmi Diyah Larasati

18. Aquatopia: Harmattan Theater, Neoliberal Provisionality, and the Future of Water
May Joseph

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Political Theory