TY  - BOOK
ED  - H. Raheja, Michelle
ED  - J. Phillipson, D.
ED  - Gilbert, Helen
AB  - Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in the interactions, contradictions, disjunctions, opportunities, exclusions, injustices and aspirations that globalization entails. Focusing specifically on embodied arts and activism, this interdisciplinary volume offers vital new perspectives on the power and precariousness of indigeneity as a politicized cultural force in our unevenly connected world. Twenty-three distinct voices speak to the growing visibility of indigenous peoples’ performance on a global scale over recent decades, drawing specific examples from the Americas, Australia, the Pacific, Scandinavia and South Africa. An ethical touchstone in some arenas and a thorny complication in others, indigeneity is now belatedly recognised as mattering in global debates about natural resources, heritage, governance, belonging and social justice, to name just some of the contentious issues that continue to stall the unfinished business of decolonization. To explore this critical terrain, the essays and images gathered here range in subject from independent film, musical production, endurance art and the performative turn in exhibition and repatriation practices to the appropriation of hip-hop, karaoke and reality TV. Collectively, they urge a fresh look at mechanisms of postcolonial entanglement in the early 21st century as well as the particular rights and insights afforded by indigeneity in that process.
DO  - 10.3828/9781786940803
ID  - OAPEN ID: 636305
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030820959
KW  - globalization
KW  - postcolonial arts
KW  - contemporary
KW  - activism
KW  - modern
KW  - postcolonial
KW  - global
KW  - trans-indigenous
KW  - indigeneity
KW  - indigenous arts
KW  - performance
KW  - Indigenous peoples
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/a7013bd8-f8a9-4577-a2e4-156a38aa872b/636305.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31179
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781786940803
TI  - In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalizationnull
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