Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Politicizing Creative Economy by Dia Da Costa Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Bhutan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people. As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make street theater a crucial site for considering what counts as creativity in the cultural politics of creative economy. Da Costa explores the precarious lives, livelihoods, and ideologies at the intersection of heritage projects, planning discourse, and activist performance. By analyzing the creators, performers, and activists involved--individuals at the margins of creative economy as well as society--Da Costa builds a provocative argument. Their creative economy practices may survive, challenge, and even reinforce the economies of death, displacement, and divisiveness used by the urban poor to survive. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into the global development, nationalist and leftist/progressive histories shaping these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Budhan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people. As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make activist theater a crucial site for considering what counts as creativity in the cultural politics of creative economy. Da Costa explores the precarious lives, livelihoods, and ideologies at the intersection of heritage projects, planning discourse, and activist performance. By analyzing the creators, performers, and activists involved--individuals at the margins of creative economy as well as society--Da Costa builds a provocative argument. Their creative economy practices may survive, challenge, and even reinforce the economies of death, displacement, and divisiveness used by the urban poor to survive. Author Biography Dia Da Costa is an associate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Alberta and the author of Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India. Table of Contents TitleContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Politicizing Creative Economy1. When Victims Become Entrepreneurs: From Sentimental Nationalism to Sentimental Capitalism2. Ordinary Violence and Creative EconomyPart II: Janams Ideology for Life3. An Ideology for Life?4. Virtually Speechless5. Laughing at the EnemyPart III: Budhan Theatres Creative Economy6. A Hunger Called Theater7. The Good Women of Chharanagar8. Another Creative Economy?ConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex Review "Da Costa provides powerful analytic tools to interrogate the ways activists such as Bird Song work within and against the complicities and potentialities of neoliberal creative economy discourse and practice. . . . A powerful feminist intervention."--Antipode"Herein lies the rich potential for scholars in theatre and performance to turn to this book as a way of reimagining our own praxis within creative-economy imperatives that promise emancipation, even while eradicating the creative hungers and labors that sustain us."--Theatre Journal"By exploring these two companies Da Costa challenges the optimism that surrounds creative economic theory by revealing the messiness of its realities for communities that hunger for the arts in the neoliberal present."--Theatre Journal"Fills a gap in terms of uncovering the history of contemporary groups and locating their political work in the contexts of intersecting issues of class, caste, gender, and political power play. Importantly, it also carefully exposes the political conditions under which groups such as Janam and Budhan operate and the limitations and possibilities of their operations. Situating the work of the above-mentioned groups in the context of developmental discourses and within global networks of power (especially the role of UN organizations in defining creativity and its implications for local contexts within India) adds an extremely important dimension to the work."--Nandi Bhatia, author of Performing Women/Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India"Intersecting with political science and sociology as well as performance, this is a thorough critical analysis of the political and artistic environment in India. . . . Recommended."--Choice"Da Costas work represents a milestone in the study of Indias place in a globalized commodification of culture. Rather than to simply point to this phenomenon or critique easy targets of religion and nation, Da Costas book offers depth, nuance, and analytical power. No consideration of India in and of globalization will be complete without it."--Contributions to Indian Sociology"An ambitious book. . . . Offering both a critical analysis of the sentiment of optimism that so frequently surrounds the creative economy and a sympathetic critique of the compromised opportunities that this discourse allows for marginal and oppositional cultural groups in postcolonial India."--Geraldine Pratt, author of Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love Long Description Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Bhutan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people. As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make street theater a crucial site for considering what counts as creativity in the cultural politics of creative economy. Da Costa explores the precarious lives, livelihoods, and ideologies at the intersection of heritage projects, planning discourse, and activist performance. By analyzing the creators, performers, and activists involved--individuals at the margins of creative economy as well as society--Da Costa builds a provocative argument. Their creative economy practices may survive, challenge, and even reinforce the economies of death, displacement, and divisiveness used by the urban poor to survive. Review Text "By exploring these two companies Da Costa challenges the optimism that surrounds creative economic theory by revealing the messiness of its realities for communities that hunger for the arts in the neoliberal present."-- Theatre Journal "Da Costas work represents a milestone in the study of Indias place in a globalized commodification of culture. Rather than to simply point to this phenomenon or critique easy targets of religion and nation, Da Costas book offers depth, nuance, and analytical power. No consideration of India in and of globalization will be complete without it."-- Contributions to Indian Sociology Review Quote "Intersecting with political science and sociology as well as performance, this is a thorough critical analysis of the political and artistic environment in India. . . . Recommended."-- Choice Promotional "Headline" Rethinking the theoretical and policy optimism around the arts and creative economy Details ISBN0252040600 Pages 304 Publisher University of Illinois Press Series Dissident Feminisms ISBN-10 0252040600 ISBN-13 9780252040603 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Illinois Press Subtitle Activism and a Hunger Called Theater Place of Publication Baltimore Country of Publication United States Short Title POLITICIZING CREATIVE ECONOMY Language English Media Book DEWEY 306.4848 Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-12-08 UK Release Date 2016-12-08 NZ Release Date 2016-12-08 US Release Date 2016-12-08 Illustrations 15 black and white photographs Author Dia Da Costa Alternative 9780252082108 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2016-11-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780252040603
Book Title: Politicizing Creative Economy
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Author: Dia Da Costa
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Dissident Feminisms
Format: Hardcover
