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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 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