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THE PERFORMANCE AND PEDAGOGY OF NEOLIBERAL AFFECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2010

Eng-Beng Lim ,
Lisa Duggan  and
José Esteban Muñoz
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Editor's Note: Under Mike Sell's excellent editorship, the Critical Stages column in Theatre Survey was developed as a venue for representing current issues for subdisciplinary divisions within the broader field of theatre and performance studies. As the new editor for the column, I hope to build upon Sell's previous editorial work by shifting the form of these short essays in two ways: first, by spotlighting concerns that reach both inside the many corners of our field and outside into a range of broader “publics”; and second, by engaging multiple scholars and artists in “conversations” in order to provide plural perspectives on these concerns. For this first column of my editorship, Eng-Beng Lim, Lisa Duggan, and José Esteban Muñoz track several micro- and macromaneuverings of neoliberalism—from the classroom to the department to the “global university”—and consider how theatre and performance scholars might approach the political difficulties currently threatening the mission of higher education.

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Critical Stages: Edited by Patrick Anderson
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Theatre Survey , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , May 2010 , pp. 127 - 133
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 2010

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1. Bourdieu, Pierre and Wacquant, Loïc, “Neoliberal Newspeak: Notes on the New Planetary Vulgate,” Radical Philosophy 105 (2001): 2–5Google Scholar. For example, Bourdieu and Wacquant state that “one in ten youths from households earning less than 15,000 dollars per year has access to a university campus, compared to 94% of the children of families with an income exceeding 100,000 dollars” (4).

2. Made in L.A., dir. Almudena Carracedo (2007); Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan, dir. Tia Lessin (2001).

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