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PERFORMANCE STUDIES IN CANADA

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INTRODUCTION

Performance Studies in Canada: Mapping Genealogies and Geographies of Performance Culture

PART ONE: PERFORMATIVE GEOGRAPHIES

1 Calgary’s Cultural Topography: The Performance of a City

2 X̲eyx̲elómós and Lady Franklin Rock: Place Naming, Performance Historiography, and Settler Methodologies

3 Choreographies of Place: Dancing the Vancouver Sublime from Dusk to Dawn

4 Travelling Soles: Tracing the Footprints of Our Stolen Sisters

PART TWO: SPECTACLES OF NATION

5 The American Girl Comes to Canada

6 Presumptive Intimacies and the Politics of Touch: “Strategic Culture” in Simulations of War

7 Sochi Olympics 2014, Canadian Truth and Reconciliation, and the Haunting Ghouls of Canadian Nationalism

PART THREE: REFRAMING POLITICAL RESISTANCE

8 Enchantment’s Irreconcilable Connection: Listening to Anger, Being Idle No More

9 On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian Performatives

10 Occupying the Object: Leslie Baker and Andréane Leclerc in Performance

PART FOUR: PRACTISING RESEARCH

11 Two-Way Street: The Icon in the City

12 on love: Performance as Pedagogy

13 Writing the Red Trench: Performance, Visual Culture, and Emplaced Writing

14 Working Art – Working Knowledge: Doing the Visual and Making the Material Matter

AFTERWORD

Performance Studies and Canada

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