Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Neo-liberalism's Political and Moral Economic Project: The End of Public Life?; Chapter 1: Introduction: Austerity and Drama's Public Role; Chapter 2: The Public World: An Idea Under Pressure; A Critical Moment; The Public As Liberal Idea; Neo-liberalisation and the Post-1945 Democratic Settlement; A Liberal Spectrum; Deficit Culture; Deficit Culture As Social Dramaturgy; Liberal Culture: Ethical Reciprocity; Neo-liberal Culture: Survivalism; Post-liberal Culture: Economic Determinism and Social Palliation; Liberalism As Social Pedagogy
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Community: Models of Life-in-CommonNew Institutions/New Politics; Chapter 3: Drama in Public Worlds; Intensified Neo-liberalisation: Austerity; Dramatising Austerity; Modifying Democracy; Dramatising Crisis; The Erosion of Public Life by Life-in-Public; Better than This: Performing 'Global Social Totality'; Corporate Incest; Civic Action: Contesting the Logic of Corporate Power; Part II: Performance, the Academy, and the Politics of Austerity; Chapter 4: Drama Worlds As Public Worlds; Civil Responses to Austerity: Alternative Ideas from Ireland; Complicit Scholarship; Thinking Otherwise
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Liberalism and the Anxious StateLiberalism, Religion, and Political Economy; Conservative Post-liberalism; Radical Post-liberalism; Post-liberal Limits on Citizenship and Public Life; Democratic Public Life; Democratic Public Life Under Neo-liberalism: Crises of Ideas and Institutions; The Individual, the Public, and the Common Good; Otherness: Identification, Dis-identification, Mis-identification; Identitarianism; Pressures on English Social Liberalism; Post-liberal Prescriptions; Republican Democracy: 'Aspiration/Response/Action'; Social Rights, Human Rights
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Performance and Civic FuturesThe Academy and Deficit Culture; Performance and Deficit Culture; Performing Alternatives; Satire in the Face of Cynicism: Performing Folly; Folly in the Service of Sense: Francis the Holy Jester; Preaching Gifts: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir; Performance and Social Change; Performance and Human Flourishing; Chapter 5: Confronting Corporate Neo-liberalism in Jim Nolan's Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (2016); The Global Financial Crisis in Ireland: Socialising Failure; Performance and Nation; Public Plays
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Public Memory: Commemoration, Domestication, and the Un-cooperative PastJohnny I Hardly Knew Ye: Counter-Memory, Counter-Narrative; The Past As Site of Contestation; Chapter 6: (Re)Public Worlds: Drama As Ethical Encounter; The Playhouse As Public Space; One Hour Theatre Company; Half Measures; Lear in Brexitland; A Pound of Flesh; Neo-liberalism and Theatre's Social Role; Drama and Public Deliberation; Public Deliberation: Negotiating Meaning and Value; Chapter 7: Beyond Deficit Culture: Conceptualising Collectives; Deficit Culture, a Contemporary Mythology; Mediation and Deficit Culture
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Springer Nature
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com.springer.onix.9783030032609
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Austerity and the public role of drama.
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9783030032593
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Culture.
Group values (Sociology)
Theater and society.
Theater-- Political aspects.
Culture.
Group values (Sociology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.