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Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe
Editor: Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager | Reference: P3039 | ISBN: 978-1137379368 | Type: Publication

This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.

activism austerity Aylwyn Walsh Bertolt Brecht biopolitics border border crossing British Museum capitalism colonialism Cristina Delgado-Garcia David Cameron debt dispossession Emma Cox Entitled EU European Union Euroscepticism eurozone Florian Thamer geography Giulia Palladini hope human rights labour learning London Stock Exchange Louise Owen Marilena Zaroulia Marissia Fragkou multiculturalism National Theatre nationhood neoliberalism Occupy LSX Other performance Philip Hager politics protest public space Quarantine Rachel Clements repatriation resistance revolution Rimini Protokoll riot subjectivity Tina Turnheim unemployment urbanisation value visibility Weimar Republic xenophobia

Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts
Artist/Author: Mel Evans | Reference: P2872 | ISBN: 978-0745335889 | Type: Publication

Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain.

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