Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.

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KHALID AMINE Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tetouan, Morocco SHARON ARONSON-LEHAVI Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel MARIN BLA EVI? Assistant Professor, Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia PETER ECKERSALL Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia LADA ?ALE FELDMAN Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia SHANNON JACKSON Professor of Rhetoric and Professor and Chair of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA LOREN KRUGER Professor of Comparative and English Literatures, African Studies, and Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago, USA BOJANA KUNST Researcher, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Assistant Professor, University of Primorska, Slovenia RAY LANGENBACH Professorship in Postgraduate Artistic Research, Art History, and Theory, Finnish Academy of Fine Art and Finnish Theatre Academy, and Associate Professor in the Department of Performance and Media, Sunway University, Malaysia GAY MCAULEY Honorary Associate Professor of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Australia SAL MURGIYANTO Associate Professor of Dance and Performance, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, and Jakarta Institute of the Arts, Indonesia SIBYLLE PETERS Researcher, director and performer PAUL RAE Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, National University ofSingapore FREDDIE ROKEM Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th and 20th Century Art, Tel Aviv University, Israel EDWARD SCHEER Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy, University of Warwick, UK and President of PSi (Performance Studies international) DIANA TAYLOR University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, New York University, USA UCHINO TADASHI Professor of Performance Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan TAKAHASHI YUICHIRO Professor of Performance Studies, Dokkyo University, Japan

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Notes on Contributors Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization; J.McKenzie, C.J.W.-L.Wee & H.Roms PART I: INSTITUTIONALIZING PERFORMANCE STUDIES The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; D.Taylor Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; G.McAuley The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; H.Roms Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the 'Americanization' of the American University; S.Jackson Performance Studies in Japan; U.Tadashi& T.Yuichiro PART II: CONTESTING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THROUGH PERFORMANCE Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia; E.Scheer& P.Eckersall Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Slovenian Journal Maska ; B.Kunst 'Say as I Do': Performance Research in Singapore; R.Langenbach& P.Rae The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany; S.Peters Translate, or Else: Marking the Global Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia; ?.Feldman& M.Blaevi? PART III: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity; K.Amine Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia; S.Murgiyanto Word and Action in Israeli Performance; S.Aronson-Lehavi& F.Rokem Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; L.Kruger Index