ISBN:
9781137568731
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (325 pages)
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DDC:
301
Keywords:
Democracy
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Utopias in literature
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Utopias in art
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Utopian Interventions and Their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas -- Explaining the Title: Why "Performing" "Utopias" in the "Contemporary Americas" -- The Origin of Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas -- The Contents of the Book -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I: Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations -- Chapter 2: A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015 -- Chapter 3: tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house -- Chapter 4: Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis -- Note -- Works Cited -- Part II: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges -- Chapter 5: Writing. First. Contacts? -- Critical Moment: Visual Containments -- Performance Art Methodologies: Re-Formations of Time/Body/Land -- Reflective Moment: Re-Movements and Resumptions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish -- Chapter 7: Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement -- Following Che: The FLN Arrives to the Mountain in Chiapas -- 1910/1968: Marcos (Re)Defines His Political Identity -- Marcos's Masked "I": Building a More Inclusive and "Absolute" Democracy -- Democracy Unmasked: A Zapatista Approach to Utopia in a Post-"Marcos" Era -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro's As Hiper Mulheres -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Part III: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections -- Chapter 9: Real Utopias -- Urban Participatory Budgeting -- Wikipedia -- Worker-Owned Cooperatives -- Unconditional Basic Income -- Recommended Readings -- Also recommended
Abstract:
Chapter 10: No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No More -- Cassanova's Trained Incapacity -- The Onslaughter of Reality -- Casa Supernova: Strategies Against Architecture -- Eventualities and Transductive Futility -- Antigonizing the Present and the Future -- Idle No More: From Conservative Occupational Utopias to Thanatopia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin's and Curtis Hanson's Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Todo lo que era sólido -- Introduction -- Tracing Crisis Management as Utopian Discourse Comes Undone: Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin -- A Cinematographic Representation of the Severity and Rapidity of the Crisis: Too Big to Fail by Curtis Hanson -- A Brief Look at a Case Outside of the United States: Todo lo que era sólido by Antonio Muñoz Molina and the Spanish Recession -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12: El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Postdictatorship Chile -- Escena de avanzada and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis -- Futuristic Kitsch: El Che de los Gays (Santiago, 1997−Present) -- The Monstrous Embodiments of Hija de Perra -- Perverse Intimacies, Public Bodies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Utopia and the Performance of Social Identities: Negotiating Collective Subjectivities -- Chapter 13: Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance Through Radio in Western Canada -- Introduction -- Tuning in: Radio in the Formation of Identity -- Broadcasting the South from the North -- Sonic Utterances in Latin America amidst Political Upheaval -- Evolution of ALAD Through the Years: From Reel to Reel to Digital Sound -- Canadians: The New Gringos? -- Hearing the Spanish Language in West Coast Canada -- Conclusion -- Notes
Abstract:
Works Cited -- Chapter 14: Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003-2012) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Chapter 15: The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977-1990) -- Introduction -- Pola Weiss, Video Art, and Women in the Mexican Television Industry -- Blurring the Object and Subject of Representation: Pola Weiss's Approach to Video -- The "Cosmic Man" and Other Utopian Impulses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Videography -- Chapter 16: Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagavía Hospital -- An Incomplete Ruin -- Utopia -- Ochagavía -- Performance -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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