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Performing Human Rights


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English | ISBN: 0367626845 | 2023 | 212 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing.

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Performing Memory Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968


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English | ISBN: 1800739966 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 1225 KB
Through a post-1968 perspective on the past 50 years, Performing Memory brings together case studies on new developments in the relationship between politics and visual representation―including the histories of dance, theatre, political performance and cinema―and investigates how they relate to the interlinked concepts of visuality, corporeality and mobility. Using a collective transdisciplinary attitude from within historical disciplines, and looking across to artistic fields, this volume demonstrates that memory is not merely a recollection of experience but an interactive process, in which the body, mobile and constrained, is both a point of departure and reference.

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The Incorporeal Corpse Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage


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English | ISBN: 1793645078 | 2022 | 158 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing for theatre’s fictive nature. Conceptions of disability that place the disabled body into a permanently liminal space between life and death are directly at odds with theatrical performances, which are geared toward moving through liminality into a new point of stasis. Dorwart reveals how this contradiction leads to performance practices that work to marginalize and eliminate the presence of disabled bodies of both character and actor, as disabled characters have historically been written with different character arcs than nondisabled characters and with the assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. As more disabled actors gain exposure in film and theatre, the difference in how disabled characters are written is also increasingly affected by whether the role is intended for a disabled or nondisabled actor. These performances are enacting new means to performatively and figuratively reincorporate or eliminate the liminal disabled body. The Incorporeal Corpse demonstrates how recent plays and films try to rectify this tension between the permanence of disability and the transitory nature of performance. Scholars of theatre, disability studies, and performance studies will find this book of particular interest.

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Effective ExecutionBuilding High-Performing Organizations


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English | April 30, 2021 | ISBN: 9390252849 | 373 pages | PDF | 5.04 Mb
‘[A]t its core, this is a book about organizational development and a thorough and broad-ranging one at that. Follow Raghav through this book, he will show you the way.’ -Dr Bill Curtis, Fort Worth, Texas ‘Raghav writes about the importance of problem-solving by maintaining a solid execution focus; and getting the job done effectively.’ -Commodore Anand Khandekar I.N. (Retd), Pune Execution effectiveness has remained an unconscious focus, and not the primary focus, as organizations struggle with mediocre execution most of the times as a result of the interplay between unmindful workplace and workforce ineffectiveness. Effective Execution: Building High-Performing Organizations identifies the core foundations on which both workplace and workforce effectiveness must be fostered to make execution ‘mindful of waste’. It focuses on: · How can an organization enable alignment of individuals’ work, when they are drawn into an organization from vastly differing family, social, cultural and competency backgrounds, to achieve common business objectives? · Why are some implementations more effective than the others when organizations implement the same set of best practices contained in popular management frameworks addressing the topic of performance improvement? Author Raghav S. Nandyal draws from his worldwide consulting practice and field experiences to help CEOs and managers develop true learning organizations that build and retain advanced knowledge of their business.

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Dancing Modernism Performing Politics


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English | ISBN: 0253065410 | 2023 | 252 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In the much-anticipated update to a classic in dance studies, Mark Franko analyzes the political aspects of North American modern dance in the 20th century.

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