This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines; these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other disciplines. This book investigates the structural similarities and features of politics and performance; which are referred to here as lsquo;grammarrsquo;; a concept which also emphasizes the common communicational base or language of these fields. In each of the chapters included in this collection; key processes of both politics and performance are identified and analyzed; demonstrating the critical and indivisible links between the fields. The book also underlines that neither politics nor performance can take place without actors who perform and spectators who receive; evaluate and react to these actions. At the heart of the project is the ambition to bring about a paradigm change; such that politics cannot be analyzed seriously without a sophisticated understanding of its performance. All the chapters here display a concrete set of events; practices; and contexts within which politics and performance are inseparable elements.This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in both International Relations and Performance Studies.
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