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Article: On the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: Theatre Against Development in Palestine

TitleOn the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: Theatre Against Development in Palestine
Authors
Issue Date2021
PublisherCambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=TRI
Citation
Theatre Research International, 2021, v. 46 n. 1, p. 4-22 How to Cite?
AbstractThe focus of this article is a critical evaluation of the impact of international development and conflict-resolution funding on theatre in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The article complicates the predominant narrative of theatre as ‘cultural resistance’ in conflict zones by historicizing the Ford Foundation's role in the institutionalization of Palestinian drama; delineating the effects of neo-liberal state building and development on Palestinian modes of performance; and subsequently, analysing the Freedom Theatre's imbrication in a normative, humanitarian logic. Aid, while ensuring the material conditions for the growth of the Palestinian performing arts, promoted a structural dependency that emptied the language of anti-colonial resistance of emancipatory potential, generating a soft, phantom sovereignty for the audience of the international community. By reimagining ‘freedom’ as liberation from a backward, conservative society, the language of the human rights industry and its attendant cultural economy spawns a spectral ‘cultural resistance’ where freedom and nationhood appear real and unreal – visions refracting, but not existing in, reality.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/299050
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2023 Impact Factor: 0.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.142
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dc.contributor.authorNicholson, RD-
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-28T02:25:32Z-
dc.date.available2021-04-28T02:25:32Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationTheatre Research International, 2021, v. 46 n. 1, p. 4-22-
dc.identifier.issn0307-8833-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/299050-
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this article is a critical evaluation of the impact of international development and conflict-resolution funding on theatre in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The article complicates the predominant narrative of theatre as ‘cultural resistance’ in conflict zones by historicizing the Ford Foundation's role in the institutionalization of Palestinian drama; delineating the effects of neo-liberal state building and development on Palestinian modes of performance; and subsequently, analysing the Freedom Theatre's imbrication in a normative, humanitarian logic. Aid, while ensuring the material conditions for the growth of the Palestinian performing arts, promoted a structural dependency that emptied the language of anti-colonial resistance of emancipatory potential, generating a soft, phantom sovereignty for the audience of the international community. By reimagining ‘freedom’ as liberation from a backward, conservative society, the language of the human rights industry and its attendant cultural economy spawns a spectral ‘cultural resistance’ where freedom and nationhood appear real and unreal – visions refracting, but not existing in, reality.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherCambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=TRI-
dc.relation.ispartofTheatre Research International-
dc.rightsTheatre Research International. Copyright © Cambridge University Press.-
dc.rightsThis article has been published in a revised form in [Journal] [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder.-
dc.titleOn the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: Theatre Against Development in Palestine-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailNicholson, RD: rnich@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityNicholson, RD=rp02443-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0307883320000553-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85103060235-
dc.identifier.hkuros322267-
dc.identifier.volume46-
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.spage4-
dc.identifier.epage22-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000630544900002-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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