Beauchesne, Kim
Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas
1. Introduction: Utopian Interventions and Their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas
Kim Beauchesne, Alessandra Santos
Part I. Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations
2. A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Saul García López, Michèle Ceballos Michot
3. tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house
Jayce Salloum, Manuel Piña
4. Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis
Michael Sakamoto
Part II. Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
5. Writing. First. Contacts?
Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin
6. Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish
Afuwa Granger, Aerlyn Weissman
7. Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement
Brianne Orr-Álvarez
8. Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro’s
Sarah Shamash
Part III. Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections
9. Real Utopias
Erik Olin Wright
10. No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M. Coetzee’s
Dan Adleman
11. Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin’s and Curtis Hanson’s
Gabriela Badica
12.
Manuela Valle
Part IV. Utopia and the Performance of Social Identities: Negotiating Collective Subjectivities
13. Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance Through Radio in Western Canada
Carmen Miranda Barrios
14. Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003–2012)
Rita Grandis
15. The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977–1990)
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
16. Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagavía Hospital
Jon Beasley-Murray
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Cultural Theory, Democracy, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture
- Editor
- Beauchesne, Kim
- Santos, Alessandra
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 19 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137568731
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-57154-0