Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526146809)

This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.

Author: Amanda Stuart Fisher
ISBN-10: 1526146800
ISBN-13: 9781526146809
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2021