Performing Welfare: Applied Theatre, Unemployment, and Economies of Participation

by Sarah Bartley

Book Overview

This book explores what happens to socially committed performance when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an ideological assault on dependency; a pervasive scapegoating of the poor, young, and disabled; and an intensification of the discursive relationship between morality and work. This book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030448533
• ISBN13: 9783030448530
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"