A collection of scholarly essays, in paperback for the first time,
Violence Performed is a timely intervention that explores the
constitutive relationship between violence and performance in a variety
of geopolitical spaces. Using the optic of performance studies, the
authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives on questions of
local/global violence to examine political violence across various
social and artistic sites while also addressing more global concerns
about how violence is performed in the modern world. The essays look at
media as diverse as street theatre and performance art to photography
and cinema, in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India
and Israel. Collectively, the essays expand the methodological,
discursive, and geographical frameworks of Performance Studies.