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Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance

Mutual borrowing, fluid transactions and transformations of performances and performers have a long and enduring history in Southeast Asia, but this trend has been heightened and made more vivid in the contemporary period. The omnipresence of global communications has provoked and inspired yet more novel experiments and collaborations between cosmopolitan artists and globally-oriented performers. This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. It demonstrates the ways in which contemporary artists and performers are increasingly working betwixt the traditional boundaries of the nation and discourses of identity. The essays collected here are testament to ongoing conversations and relations among scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners in Southeast Asia and around the world.

The Globalization of Theatre 1870–1930
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Globalization of Theatre 1870–1930

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E. Bandmann and his global theatrical circuit in the early twentieth century.

Indonesia's Islamic Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Indonesia's Islamic Revolution

The decolonization of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, was seen by up to half of the population as a religious struggle. Utilizing a combination of oral history and archival research, Kevin W. Fogg presents a new understanding of the Indonesian revolution and of Islam as a revolutionary ideology.

Transnational Chinese Theatres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Transnational Chinese Theatres

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.

Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-25
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Slaves, mistresses, concubines – the English courts have used these terms to describe polygamous wives in the past, but are they still seen this way today? Using a critical postcolonial feminist lens, this book provides a contextualized exploration of English legal responses to polygamy. Through the legacies of British imperialism, the book shows how attitudes to polygamy are shaped by indifference and hostility towards its participants. This goes beyond the law, as shown by the stories of women shared throughout the book negotiating their identities and relationships in the UK today. Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how polygamy and polygamous wives are subjected to imperialist and orientalist discourses which dehumanise them for practising a relationship that has existed for millennia.

Egalitarian Digital Privacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Egalitarian Digital Privacy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-30
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book considers the social, legal and technological features of unauthorised dissemination of intimate images. With a focus on private law theory, the book defines the appropriate scope of liability of platforms and viewers.

Radical Traditions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Radical Traditions

In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.

Observing Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Observing Justice

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-28
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book examines how major but often under-scrutinised legal, social, and technological developments have affected the transparency and accountability of the criminal justice process. Drawing on empirical and evaluative studies, as well as their own research experiences, the authors explore key legal policy issues such as equality of access, remote and virtual courts, justice system data management, and the roles of public and media observers. Highlighting the implications of recent changes for access to justice, offender rehabilitation, and public access to information, the book proposes a framework for open justice which prioritises public legal education and justice system accountability.

Fragile Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Fragile Rights

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-29
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book analyzes the reception of disability policies in the fields of education, employment, social rights and accessibility.

Intersex Embodiment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Intersex Embodiment

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-22
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book examines the divergent medical, political and legal constructions of intersex. The authors use empirical data to explore how intersex people are embodied through these frameworks which in turn influence their lived experiences. Through their analysis, the authors reveal the factors that motivate and influence the way in which policy makers and legislators approach the area of intersex rights. They reflect on the limitations of law as the primary vehicle in challenging healthcare’s framing of intersex as a ‘disorder’ in need of fixing. Finally, they offer a more holistic account of intersex justice which is underpinned by psychosocial support and bodily integrity.