Editorial, 'Political Times'

Eleanor Roberts

Editorial, 'Political Times'

Eleanor Roberts

Centre for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange

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Abstract

This issue of Interventions is organised around confluences of divergent temporalities in political and activist methods. The five contributors, who each take up positions overlapping research and activism, adopt a variety of writerly and performance modes to trace their involvement in ‘political times.’ Some of the questions posed to contributors include how one sustains an activist practice, or avoids ‘burn out’, and what are the politics of temporalities such as the prelude, interruption, decolonising or queering linear time, or critiquing the neoliberal condition of having ‘no time’? Such confluences may involve reaching across or muddling between different times, as activists and scholars look to the past in order to propose different futures. In what ‘political times’ are we working; and how might we organise temporalities of action (or inaction) in response?

Original language	English
Volume	29
No.	4
Specialist publication	Contemporary Theatre Review: Interventions
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

performance studies
Political Theory
art activism
identity
Theatre
dance
Live Art
performance art

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https://www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/2020/interventions-winter-spring-2019-20/

Contemporary Theatre Review: Interventions (Journal)
Roberts, E. (Editor)
2019 → 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial Activity

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Editorial, 'Political Times'

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