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Amnesty Magazine issue 174
Editor: Maggie Paterson | Reference: P3314 | Type: Publication

Issue dedicated to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2008.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

activism advocacy Burma charity China Guantanamo human rights Kenya law Myanmar Pakistan politics prison prisoner protest Saudi Arabia universal declaration of human rights

Theatre and Law
Artist/Author: Alan Read | Reference: P3014 | ISBN: 978-1137469557 | Type: Publication

The first comprehensive account of the complex relations between legal process and performances. Through ten major principles of performance within law, it establishes how law itself is a performative mode of practice and reflects upon the co-dependence of law, performance and politics in celebrated works of theatre.

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So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Artist/Author: Patrick Anderson | Reference: P2981 | ISBN: 978-0822348283 | Type: Publication

Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Ana Mendieta anorexia archive commodification death disappearance emaciation endurance fast fasting force-feeding gender Giorgio Agamben Guantanamo hunger strike Judith Butler liveness Marina Abramović Martin Heidegger masculinity men morbidity mortality Peggy Phelan performativity politics resistance Sigmund Freud spectacle subjectivation suffering Terri Schiavo theory violence women

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