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Failed States: suburb
An occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. In the second issue, the topic is ‘suburb’.
Failed States: refuge
An occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. In the third issue, the topic is ‘refuge’.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Beyond Black and White: From Civil Rights to Barack Obama
Dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time.
Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire
When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents. This was not simply about tearing down an outward symbol of British imperialism – a monument glorifying a colonial conqueror – but about confronting the toxic inheritance of the past, and challenging the continued underrepresentation of people of colour at universities.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Vrystaat Arts Festival 2017 programme
Programme for the Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures; 18-22 July 2017.
Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production
The essential reader for today's creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers who examine the historical precedent of South Africa; the current cultural boycott of Israel; freedom of speech and self-censorship; and long-distance activism. It is about consequences and causes of cultural boycott.
The Art of Truth-telling About Authoritarian Rule
The illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, street theatre, paintings, and ideas that pay witness to authoritarian pasts.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Queer Dramaturgies
Starting from the premise that live performance is experienced in a material, local context, the chapters analyse the intricate and complex workings of queer dramaturgy within specific venues, cities, nations or transnationally.
Protesting Exhibit B in London: Reconfiguring Antagonism as the Claiming of Theatrical Space
The article analyses discourses surrounding the cancellation of Brett Bailey’s performance by the Barbican in September 2014.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.
