This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.

Focusing on runyege, the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda. Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional performing arts and gender in western Uganda. The book focuses on runyege, the main genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, exploring its different components of singing, instrument playing, dancing, and acting and identifying their complex relationships to gender models and expressions. Today mainly performed at Ugandan school festivals and by semiprofessional ensembles, repertoires like runyege adhere to stage conventions that have developed over several decades. Some of these conventions are powerful devices allowing the actors involved (performers, teachers, students, adjudicators, and audiences) to collectively shape an image of local culture grounded in a gender binary that is perceived as traditional. At the same time, stage conventions are exploited by some performers to negotiate their gender identities and expressions in unconventional ways, thus challenging hegemonic gender models. Moving between analysis of historical recordings, oral accounts, and present-day fieldwork data and experiences, the book engages in a comprehensive analysis of the postcolonial entanglement of arts and gender. Audio and video recordings presented in the book can be accessed on the book's companion website, http: //hdl.handle.net/1802/37373. | Author: Linda Cimardi | Publisher: University Of Rochester Press | Publication Date: Aug 22, 2023 | Number of Pages: 302 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1648250327 | ISBN-13: 9781648250323

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony - that is, legitimated rule by dominant power - have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes does it bring? This volume addresses these questions by assembling perspectives from various regions across the world, including Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, Russia and the USA. The contributions in this book span diverse theoretical perspectives from realism to postcolonialism, as well as multiple issue areas such as finance, the Internet, migration and warfare. By exploring the role of non-state actors, transnational networks, and norms, this collection covers various standpoints and moves beyond traditional concepts of state-based hierarches centred on material power. The result is a wealth of novel insights on today's changing dynamics of world politics. Hegemony and World Order is critical reading for policymakers and advanced students of International Relations, Global Governance, Development, and International Political Economy.

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition. Exploring the notion of postcolonial Europe as it characterises a Europe caught at a number of crossroads, it considers the distinctly European features of a range of global crises by which Europe is beset, relating to migration, nationalism, internationalism, climate change and inequality. Linking these to the legacy of European hegemony during the era of high imperialism and the inability to come to terms with the region's increasingly provincialised status, the reversal of migrant flows following the implosion of European empires, and the dismantling of welfare societies initially made possible by the accumulation of wealth during colonialism, the author examines the gradual disintegration of the idea of the European collectivity and the erosion of the idea that Europe is a dispenser of privileged status. A wide-ranging study of Europe's crisis in its postcolonial era, this volume will appeal to scholars of critical sociology, political geography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science and history with interests in colonialism and postcolonialism.

A collection of the latest work on the city, presenting contemporary theories, methods and perspectives in an accessible format for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in geography, cultural studies and sociology.

Notes on Contributors Introducing Disability and Social Theory; D.Goodley, B.Hughes & L.Davis PART I: CULTURES Civilizing Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People; B.Hughes Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of 'Disability' in the Academy; R.Mallett & K.Runswick-Cole Disability and the Majority World: A Neo-Colonial Approach; S.Grech Discourses of Disabled Peoples Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives; T.Blackmore & S.Hodgkins PART II: BODIES Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies; D.Reeve Theory, Impairment, and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben; J.Overboe The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach; T.Titchkosky & R.Michalko Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach; E.McGrath PART III: SUBJECTIVITIES Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies; G.Roets & R.Braidotti Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies; D.Goodley Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on 'Challenging Behaviour'; K.Nunkoosing & M.Laurelut Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose 'Abled' Narcissism; F.Campbell PART IV: COMMUNITIES Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability; R.Lawthom Disability, Development and Postcolonialism; T.Chataika Engaging Disability with Postcolonial Theory; A.Ghai Recognition, Respect and Rights: Women with Disabilities in a Globalised World; C.Frohmader & H.Meekosha Conclusions; B.Hughes, D.Goodley & L.Davis Glossary