This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.
1. Introduction: Utopian Interventions and their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas - Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos
Part 1: Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations
2. A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015 - Guillermo G?mez-Pe?a, Saul Garc?a L?pez, and Mich?le Ceballos Michot
3. tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house - Jayce Salloum and Manuel Pi?a
4. Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis - Michael Sakamoto
Part 2: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
5. Writing. First. contacts? - Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin
6. Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish - Afuwa Granger and Aerlyn Weissman
7. Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement - Brianne Orr-?lvarez
8. Utopic Cannibalism in Fausto Carlos, Leonardo Sette, and Takuma Kuikuros As Hiper Mulheres - Sarah Shamash
Part 3: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections
9. Real Utopias - Erik Olin Wright
10. No Suture: Rethinking Utopia through J. M. ClV
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