Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict: Building Just and Inclusive Communities [Hardcover]

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation.

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflictis a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts.Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, whileVolume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities, focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by subtler forms of structural violence and social exclusion.

Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violencefocuses on the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities for expression, communication, and transformative action, and creatively support communities in grappling with conflicting moral imperatives surrounding questions of justice, memory, resistance, and identity. The individual chapters, written by scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, and artists who work directly with the communities involved, offer vivid firsthand accounts and analyses of traditional and nontraditional performances in Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India, Cambodia, Australia, and the United States.

Complemented by a website of related materials, a documentary film,Acting Together on the World Stage, that features clips and interviews with the curators and artists, and a toolkit, or Tools for Continuing the Conversation, that is included with the documentary as a second disc, this book will inform and inspire socially engaged artists, cultural workers, peacebuilding scholars and practitioners, l³7