Dia Da Costa

Development Dramas

Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India

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Produktbeschreibung

Study with reference to Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Calcutta, India.

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This book uses political theatre to trace the present-day protests in West Bengal against the Left government's acquisition of agricultural land for industrialisation to decades of public protest by the rural Bengali against an accumulated dispossession of meanings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415553735
• ISBN-10: 0415553733
• Artikelnr.: 27385417

Autorenporträt

Dia da Costa is Assistant Professor, Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments PART I Introduction: Reimagining Development and Rural
Political Action 1. Development Dramas and World-Historical Anomalies 2.
The Work of Political Theatre in a Democratic Place 3. Political Society in
Formation: Staging Early Critiques PART II 4. Spect-Actors of History 5.
Spoiled Sons and Sincere Daughters: Schooling, Security, and Empowerment
6. Have They Disabled Us? Liquor Production and Grammars of Material
Distress and Distribution 7. The Snake-Goddess and her Antidote: Compelling
Collectivity Against Inequality and Uncertainty Conclusion References Index