Performing Care: Neue Perspektiven für sozial engagierte Leistung

Author/Contributor(s):	Fisher, Amanda Stuart ; Thompson, James
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Date:	07/26/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.