TY - BOOK AU - Rai,Shirin AU - Reinelt,Janelle G. TI - The grammar of politics and performance SN - 9781315879871 (ebook : PDF) PY - 2015/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y. PB - Routledge KW - Communication in politics KW - Social aspects KW - Performing arts KW - Political aspects KW - Persuasion (Rhetoric) KW - Theater N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction / Janelle Reinelt and Shirin Rai -- 2. Performing democracy : roles, stages, scripts / John Parkinson -- 3. Performance at the crossroads of citizenship / Janelle Reinelt -- 4. "I am an American" : protesting advertised "Americanness" / Cynthia Weber -- 5. Characterization and systemic gender violence : the example of laundry and the figure of the mother in Irish culture / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- 6. Theatricality vs. bare life : performance as a vernacular of resistance / Silvija Jestrovic -- 7. Becoming a democratic audience / Alan Finlayson -- 8. Street arts, radical democratic citizenship, and a grammar of storytelling / Susan C. Haedicke -- 9. Tahrir Square, EC4M : the Occupy movement and the dramaturgy of public order / Sophie Nield -- 10. Temporality, politics and performance : missing, displaced, disappeared / Jenny Edkins -- 11. Performance and politics : ceremony and ritual in Parliament / Shirin M. Rai -- 12. Bringing the audience back in : Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the efficacy of public hearings / Gabrielle Lynch -- 13. Betrayal and what follows : rituals of repentance, healing and anger in response to the church sexual abuse scandal in Ireland / Joshua Edelman -- 14. Closet grammars of intentional deception : the logic of lies, state security and homosexual panic in Cold War politics / James M. Harding -- 15. Afterword : sovereign and critical grammars / Michael Saward UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9781315879871 ER -