Introduction: Postdiplomatic Theatre / James R. Ball III (Texas A&M University, USA) -- 1. (En)Acting the Republic: the 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland / Áine Josephine Tyrrell (independent scholar) -- 2. An Indian Princess, British Monarchs, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties in 1939 / Christiana Molldrem Harkulich (Eastern Illinois University, USA) -- 3. Nkrumah's Batakari: performance and the sartorial in pro-independence Ghanaian politics / David Donkor (Texas A&M University, USA) -- 4. Windrush Strikes Back: 'Rivers of Blood,' Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy / Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University, USA) -- 5. Theater of Operations/Operating Theatre: War-as-Medicine in American Statecraft / Warren Kluber (Columbia University, USA) -- 6. Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines / Adam Kielman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) -- 7. The President Makes a Play: Putin and Erdogan's Sporting Diplomacy / Sean Bartley (Northwestern State University, USA) and Jared Strange (University of Maryland College Park, USA) -- 8. DunaPart Dissent: Using Theatre as Public Protest in Budapest, Hungary / Natka Bianchini (Loyola University Maryland, USA) -- 9. Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking Bolívar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance / Angela Marino (University of California, Berkeley, USA) -- 10. Dissensus and Diplomacy / Tony Perucci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Index.

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"The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft. What is the role of performance in governance and diplomacy? How can we advance interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists? Treating theatre as both an artform and as a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the use of theatre as a soft power tool, arts activism on the world stage, embodied dimensions of governance, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, performed nationalisms, and related themes. Performing Statecraft brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a theatre company in exile, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces. Attending to such performances reveals how worlds are made where official statecraft and citizen statecraft converge and conflict. Tracing these conflicts, new histories appear in which a performing body reasserts itself as an essential component of a global politics that embraces dissent and recognizes the vulnerability of power."-- Provided by publisher.

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