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The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication

Mutibwa, Daniel H.

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This article explores how four British and German theatre companies that originated in the countercultural era continue to survive in an increasingly austere economic climate. Although their survival strategies have been marked by remarkable resilience, this has sometimes affected the quality of engagement with their socio-political enquiries and interventions informed in part by radical approaches to theatre-making that make these companies so distinctive. The article draws on relevant theoretical perspectives and ethnographic fieldwork to argue that whereas some constitutive elements of radical theatre are discernible, these are increasingly being constrained by elitist/political and market forces that threaten to undermine these companies’ unique significance as conduits for democratic communication.

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Mutibwa, D. H. (2016). The entwinement of politics, arts, culture and commerce in staging social and political reality to enhance democratic communication. International Journal of Communication, 5997–6016

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 28, 2016
Online Publication Date Oct 30, 2016
Publication Date Oct 30, 2016
Deposit Date Oct 12, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal International Journal of Communication
Electronic ISSN 1932-8036
Publisher University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Issue 10
Pages 5997–6016
Keywords Dialogic exchange; participatory engagement; aesthetic reflexivity; sociology of cultural production; social critique; political agency; pragmatism
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/809053
Publisher URL http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5351/1873

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