Acting Together

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflictexplores performance as a social justice, conflict resolution, and peace-building tool in regions fractured by violence, dislocation, poverty, and oppression. Nine case studies from six continents shape a vocabulary for evaluating community, artist, and ritual-based performance, giving voice to silenced truths. Performative genres of positive resistance and peace building include traditional and nontraditional theater, storytelling, nonviolent protest, vigil, skateboarding, martial arts, and hip hop and rap. Photos and vivid firsthand accounts expose performance's unique ability to bypass polemics, heal wounds, and engender a more peaceful future in Argentina, Peru, Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Palestine, India, Australia, and the United States.

Foreword: Acting Together on the World Stage	p. ix
Preface: Lights in the Darkness	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Contributors	p. xxii
Introduction: Setting the Stage	p. 1
Singing in the Dark Times: Peacebuilding Performance in the Midst of Direct Violence	p. 15
Introduction to Section I	p. 17
Theatre as a Way of Creating Sense: Performance and Peacebuilding in the Region of the Former Yugoslavia	p. 23
Theatre, War, and Peace in Uganda	p. 45
The Created Space: Peacebuilding and Performance in Sri Lanka	p. 73
Theatre, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in Palestine	p. 97
Weaving Dialogues and Confronting Harsh Realities: Engendering Social Change in Israel through Performance	p. 123
Holding Fast to the Feet of the Rising Condor: Peacebuilding Performance in the Aftermath of Mass Violence	p. 145
Introduction to Section II	p. 147
Fire in the Memory: Theatre, Truth, and Justice in Argentina and Peru	p. 153
Hidden Fires: PeaceWorks' Invocations as Zizekian Response to the Gujarat Massacres of 2002	p. 179
Alive on Stage in Cambodia: Time, Histories, and Bodies	p. 201
Creating a New Story: Ritual, Ceremony, and Conflict Transformation between Indigenous and Settler Peoples	p. 225
Afterword	p. 253
Presentation of Volume II	p. 257
Notes	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 287
Credits	p. 295
Index	p. 299
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