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Ball, James R., III.

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Theatre of State: the Performative Production of International Community.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theatre of State: the Performative Production of International Community./
Author:	Ball, James R., III.
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-01A(E).
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3524131
ISBN:	9781267583505

Theatre of State: the Performative Production of International Community.
Ball, James R., III.

Theatre of State: the Performative Production of International Community. - 299 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2012.

Each September states and their representatives converge at the United Nations to mount an annual show with a global audience. In international institutions one finds many species of theatre, but that appellation should not be taken pejoratively. Placing the work of the United Nations alongside more traditional forms of aesthetic drama allows a reevaluation of the relationship between theatre and politics. Theatre establishes the conditions that make the work of international institutions and international relations possible. In the performative gestures of diplomacy a contingent yet material international community is made. This study travels between diplomatic and traditional theatres so that they might speak to and learn from one another. Examining debates regarding nuclear disarmament in the General Assembly and Security Council reveals the performative contours of an international system in which states are required to perform in order to have a political being and act efficaciously. Placing these debates in conversation with those staged in the drama Copenhagen demonstrates the necessity of a theatrical frame for such diplomatic performative acts. Theatre and performance provide both the terms by which the contours of an international community can be policed, and by which that community can be made anew. At the International Criminal Court one finds the construction of an international community that stitches together the activities of states and private individuals. One also finds an optimism inherent to the notion that a progressive court can ameliorate excesses of military violence. The scenes represented in The King and I elaborate this optimism, while those in Battlestar Galactica demonstrate its limits. The work of United Nations peacekeepers at these limits proves often to be just as violent as the activities an international community is invoked to counteract. Examining the work of peacekeepers in Lebanon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo alongside their depiction in the plays In a Kingdom by the Sea and Ruined makes clear the danger of any effort to extend an international community by force. Diplomatic performance and performatives make international community, but that community itself is a fragile performative promise susceptible to failure.

ISBN: 9781267583505Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

Theatre of State: the Performative Production of International Community.
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