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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. With all 22 practitioners from the original series represented this is the definitive first step for students scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

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Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions Performance Policy Power

Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions Performance Policy Power

While the EU has championed effective multilateralism and experienced a dramatic internal reform process to improve its performance in external relations broader multilateral processes have also undergone dramatic change. This Handbook addresses an increasingly contested issue of profound political importance: Europe’s presence in multilateral institutions. It assesses both the evolving role of Europe in international institutions and the transformations in international institutions themselves. Acknowledging that the category of international institutions comprises a highly diverse field of multilateral engagements this Handbook presents a state of the art approach that analyzes both what we have learned about the EU and international institutions as well as identifying promising avenues for further research. The Handbook is divided into six parts: Part I examines the EU’s diplomatic and legal personality in international relations that constitutes the internal foundation for the EU’s engagement with international institutions. Part II assesses how EU multilateralism intersects with other international institutions and provides a means to assess the performance of international institutions as well as the EU itself in multilateral processes. Part III focuses on the EU’s participation with key institutions within the general UN system such as the UN General Assembly and Security Council as well as specific policy domains such as human rights across UN institutions. Part IV focuses on EU relations with wide range of international organizations in a variety of fields from organizations in economic and security realms to environmental institutions and specialized agencies. Part V focuses on the EU’s engagement in a broad spectrum of issue-specific international agreements and international regimes addressing issues such as non-proliferation of WMDs climate change information technology and the emerging Gx-system (G7 G8 G20 etc). Part VI examines broader contextual factors that influence the relationship between the EU and international institutions including the evolution of multilateralism the trans-Atlantic relationship global norms and the emergence of multipolarity. This comprehensive volume brings together scholars and practitioners to summarize and synthesize existing knowledge in the field. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of European politics the EU’s external relations international relations international organizations and international political economy. | Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions Performance Policy Power

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The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners companies collectives and makers from the fields of Dance Theatre Music Live and Performance Art and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students researchers and practitioners. This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance and their stories reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms – scholarly academic creative interviews diary entries autobiographical polemical and visual. Ideal for university students and instructors this volume’s structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.

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Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

Knowing the basic nutrition requirements and combining them with proper training are the two most important factors for athletes to achieve peak performance levels. Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance: The Training Table addresses these needs on a comprehensive basis from a training table perspective. Offering practical guidelines for practitioners and athletes the book focuses on the key macronutrients that fuel daily metabolism and exercise training and explores differing needs for various athletes and their individual goals. Topics discussed include:General principles and physiology of caloric intake for all major macronutrients and how this pertains to both active and sedentary individualsEnergy demands and nutritional requirements for strength-power athletes and elite competitors in endurance sports Protein carbohydrate fat vitamin and mineral needs of athletesThe importance of optimal fluid and hydration during exerciseHow to determine body weight for a desired body fat percentage recommended calorie consumption dietary suggestions and useful meal planning tools for a wide variety of caloric needsThe difference between energy intake and energy expenditure and how athletes can eat to build muscle lose fat and optimize performanceScientific strategies on how to time exercise and food intake to more effectively replenish glycogen increase protein synthesis and blunt protein degradationHow the physiological changes that accompany aging change nutrient needs and guidelines for older athletes on maximizing performance and maintaining healthStructuring a diet containing appropriate amounts of macronutrients (protein carbohydrates and fat) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) can be a daunting task. This text adequately addresses how athletes can do so in an effe | Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

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Performance Art and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body

Performance Art and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body

This book examines necropolitics and performance art with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and decide which lives matter) through a lens of performance and art. Beasley highlights how the performances of rupture which are of artistic and historical significance reveal both strategies of survival and promises of possibility. Artists and curators examined include Jelili Atiku Giscard Bouchotte Nona Faustine Vanessa German Simone Leigh Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro Ebony G. Patterson and Dianne Smith. The volume is an ideal research and reference book for students and scholars of Contemporary Art African Studies and Performance Theory. | Performance Art and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body

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Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance. Focusing on a range of 20th- and 21st-century performances that include modern dance dance-theatre Butoh and everyday life this book demonstrates how the choreography of dirt makes biological geographical and cultural meaning what the author terms biogeocultography. Whether it’s the Foundling Father digging into the earth’s strata in Suzan-Lori Park’s The America Play (1994) peat hurling through the air in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (1975) dancers frantically shovelling out fistfuls of dirt in Eveoke Dance Theatre’s Las Mariposas (2010) or Butoh performers dancing with fungi in Iván-Daniel Espinosa’s Messengers Divinos (2018) each example shows how the incorporation of dirt can reveal micro-level interactions between species – like the interplay between microscopic skin bacteria and soil protozoa – and macro-level interactions – like the transformation of peat to a greenhouse gas. By demonstrating the stakes of moving dirt this book posits that performance can operate as a space to grapple with the multifaceted ecological dilemmas of the Anthropocene. This book will be of broad interest to both practitioners and researchers in theatre performance studies dance ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. | Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

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Design and Performance of Embankments on Very Soft Soils

Design and Performance of Embankments on Very Soft Soils

Embankment construction projects on very soft soil often give rise to serious problems. This volume on geotechnics and soft soil engineering therefore treats all phases of the design and construction process exhaustively from the first investigation step to the monitoring of constructed work. The book presents the development concepts necessary for the project stages and discusses in great detail construction methods displacement estimations stability analyses monitoring and various other aspects involved. Extensive attention is furthermore paid to the application of geosynthetics as a tool to improve the stability of soft soils and embankments. Including various tables and practical data for many geographical areas in the world this reference volume is essential reading for engineers and researchers in geotechnical engineering construction and related disciplines. | Design and Performance of Embankments on Very Soft Soils

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Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the field Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the following areas. Performance monitoring: Describes the state of the art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for monitoring and measuring performance and managing large quantities of data Performance analysis: Discusses modern approaches to computer performance benchmarking and presents results that offer valuable insight into these studiesPerformance modeling: Explains how researchers deduce accurate performance models from raw performance data or from other high-level characteristics of a scientific computationAutomatic performance tuning: Explores ongoing research into automatic and semi-automatic techniques for optimizing computer programs to achieve superior performance on any computer platformApplication tuning: Provides examples that show how the appropriate analysis of performance and some deft changes have resulted in extremely high performancePerformance analysis has grown into a full-fledged sophisticated field of empirical science. Describing useful research in modern performance science and engineering this book helps real-world users of parallel computer systems to better understand both the performance vagaries arising in scientific applications and the practical means for improving performance. Read about the book on HPCwire and insideHPC

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Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization in Communication Networks and the Internet

Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization in Communication Networks and the Internet

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory design techniques and analytical results of wireless communication networks focusing on the core principles of wireless network design. It elaborates the network utility maximization (NUM) theory with applications in resource allocation of wireless networks with a central aim of design and the QoS guarantee. It presents and discusses state-of-the-art developments in resource allocation and performance optimization in wireless communication networks. It provides an overview of the general background including the basic wireless communication networks and the relevant protocols architectures methods and algorithms. | Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization in Communication Networks and the Internet

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On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders Bill Kroyer and Tom Sito take us through insightful face-to-face interviews revealing in these two volumes the journeys of 23 world-class directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal views on the process of making feature animated films. The interviews were produced and edited by Ron Diamond. Your job is not to be the one with the answers. You should be the one that gets the answers. That’s your job. You need to make friends and get to know your crew. These folks are your talent your bag of tricks. And that’s where you’re going to find answers to the big problems - Andrew Stanton It’s hard. Yet the pain you go through to get what you need for your film enriches you and it enriches the film. – Brenda Chapman Frank and Ollie always used to say that great character animation contains movement that is generated by the character’s thought process. It can’t be plain movement. – John Lasseter The beauty of clay is that it doesn’t have to be too polished or too smooth and sophisticated. You don’t want it to be mechanical and lifeless. – Nick Park The good thing about animation is that tape is very cheap. Let the actor try things. This is where animation gets to play with spontaneity. You want to capture that line as it has never been said before. And most likely if you asked the actor to do it again he or she just can’t repeat that exact performance. But you got it. – Ron Clements | On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence development and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers including producers theatre managers choreographers directors designers and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A Timeline of African American theatre and performance. Part I Seeing ourselves onstage explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas Broadway musicals and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II Institution building highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) festivals and black actor training. Part III Theatre and social change surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims women of the Black Arts Movement Afro-Latinx theatre youth theatre and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV Expanding the traditional stage examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews sense-making rituals and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen classroom club or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars students and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre.

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High Performance Computing Programming and Applications

High Performance Computing Programming and Applications

High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications presents techniques that address new performance issues in the programming of high performance computing (HPC) applications. Omitting tedious details the book discusses hardware architecture concepts and programming techniques that are the most pertinent to application developers for achieving high performance. Even though the text concentrates on C and Fortran the techniques described can be applied to other languages such as C++ and Java. Drawing on their experience with chips from AMD and systems interconnects and software from Cray Inc. the authors explore the problems that create bottlenecks in attaining good performance. They cover techniques that pertain to each of the three levels of parallelism: Message passing between the nodes Shared memory parallelism on the nodes or the multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) units on the accelerator Vectorization on the inner level After discussing architectural and software challenges the book outlines a strategy for porting and optimizing an existing application to a large massively parallel processor (MPP) system. With a look toward the future it also introduces the use of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) for carrying out HPC computations. A companion website at www. hybridmulticoreoptimization. com contains all the examples from the book along with updated timing results on the latest released processors. | High Performance Computing Programming and Applications

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Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS )

Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS )

From codevelopers of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) this essential casebook illustrates the utility of R-PAS for addressing a wide range of common referral questions with adults children and adolescents. Compelling case examples from respected experts cover clinical issues (such as assessing psychosis personality disorders and suicidality); forensic issues (such as insanity and violence risk assessments child custody proceedings and domestic violence); and use in neuropsychological educational and other settings. Each tightly edited chapter details R-PAS administration coding and interpretation. Designed to replace the widely used Comprehensive System developed by John Exner R-PAS has a stronger empirical foundation is accurately normed for international use is easier to learn and use and reduces ambiguities in administration and coding among other improvements. Visit www. r-pas. org for more information. | Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System® (R-PAS®)

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School Counselors as Practitioners Building on Theory Standards and Experience for Optimal Performance

School Counselors as Practitioners Building on Theory Standards and Experience for Optimal Performance

Designed for school counseling course work and as a reference for school district personnel this text demystifies the roles and responsibilities of the school counselor and teaches students and practitioners how to perform conduct follow through and carry out various roles and responsibilities required on the job. School Counselors as Practitioners conveys strategic step-by-step processes and best practice recommendations with emphasis on ethical and multicultural considerations. The 14 chapters in this textbook maintain and are consistent with the basis of school counselors’ work in the school counseling core curriculum responsive services individual planning and system support and special attention is paid to ASCA and CACREP standards. A companion website provides students with templates and handouts for on-the-job responsibilities as well as quiz questions for every chapter. | School Counselors as Practitioners Building on Theory Standards and Experience for Optimal Performance

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Nowhere To Go But Down? Peasant Farming and the International Development Game

Nowhere To Go But Down? Peasant Farming and the International Development Game

Originally published in 1989 this book is a unique examination of subsistence farming in the developing world and its potential for development. The author writes from the conviction that the farming system is limited in its potential for development by the energy value of manpower and that unless the plight of developing world communities is understood and the importance of manpower constraint recognized inputs of development funds will be wasted. Clarifying the strengths and limitations of the subsistence farming system the book makes clear the complexities and difficulties encountered in achieving agricultural development in the poorest countries – providing an informed insight into the inevitability of future famine. | Nowhere To Go But Down? Peasant Farming and the International Development Game

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Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

Broadcast Announcing Worktext now in its fifth edition remains one of the best resources for those looking to gain the skills techniques and procedures necessary to enter the competitive field of broadcast performance. Written accessibly with easy-to-digest modules and practice projects this book encourages active participation from readers to help develop their talent on air. In addition to the principles of good performance the book addresses the importance of the audience and how to communicate effectively to diverse groups. The book combines traditional teaching with practical experience and includes sample scripts and self-study exercises to allow for a practical hands-on application of key concepts. The fifth edition expanded throughout features updates about performance on the Internet and social media as well as content about podcasting and audio performance. A new chapter on international media offers readers a look at media performance and career possibilities around the world. This book is an invaluable resource for any student of journalism communication or public relations looking to enhance their media performance skills. A detailed accompanying website features audio-clips sample test questions and a Professionals’ Comment Bank setting out experience and advice from working pros. | Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

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The Order of Learning Essays on the Contemporary University

The Order of Learning Essays on the Contemporary University

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government academic freedom and the responsibilities of the academic profession among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society and that distractions such as pressures from government disinterest of students and faculty in education and involvement of institutions of higher learning in social questions have damaged higher education by deflecting it from its commitment to teaching learning and research. Shils believes that the modern university must be steadfast in its commitment to the pursuit of truth the education of students and the provision of research. Universities should not be all things to all people. On one hand the academic community must understand the essential mission of the university and resist distractions. On the other government must provide the necessary support to higher education even when the immediate pay-off is not self-evident. This book provides a refreshing new perspective precisely by taking a traditional stance on the role of higher education in modern society. It includes carefully researched and elegantly written essays on many of the central issues facing education today. This work will be of great interest to educators and students alike as well as those interested in the future of higher education in the United States. | The Order of Learning Essays on the Contemporary University

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The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

The Business of Sports provides a comprehensive foundation of the economic organizational legal and political components of the sports industry. Geared for journalism communication and business students but also an excellent resource for those working in sports this text introduces readers to the ever-increasing complexity of an industry that is in constant flux. Now in its third edition the volume continues to offer a wealth of statistics and case studies up to date with the newest developments in sports business and focused on cutting-edge issues and topics including the many changes in international sports and the role of analytics in decision-making and tax rules that have a major effect on athletes and teams. | The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

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Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

This title was first published in 2002: The success of any investment strategy in urban infrastructures is dependent on how people as members of households companies or institutions will use these infrastructures in their daily lives and how actors take decisions on their investment strategies. Insights into these behaviours can help public and private actors to cope with diversity complexity and uncertainty in a dynamic urban environment. This book elaborates both theoretically and empirically the functional and governance/management perspective of urban infrastructures. It comprises theoretical contributions related to accessibility land-use modelling and urban governance while case studies from Antwerp Geneva Milan Oslo Turin and Zurich effectively analyze the problems associated with mobility infrastructure finance planning transformation and governance. It will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in urban performance. | Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

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Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the athlete or team. Researchers have shown that human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide accurate and objective information for high-performance athletes. Objective measuring tools are necessary to enable the feedback process. These can take the form of video analysis systems post-event both biomechanical and computerised notation systems or the use of in-event systems. Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is fully revised with updated existing chapters and the addition of 12 new chapters. It is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to this core discipline of contemporary sport science. The book offers a full description of the fundamental theory of match and performance analysis using real-world illustrative examples and data throughout. It also explores the applied contexts in which analysis can have a significant influence on performance. To this end the book has been defined by five sections. In Section 1 the background of performance analysis is explained and Section 2 discusses methodologies used in notating sport performance. Current issues of performance analysis applied research such as chance momentum theory perturbations and dynamic systems are explored in Section 3. Profiling the essential output skill in performance analysis is examined in depth in Section 4. The book’s final section offers invaluable applied information on careers available for performance analysts. With extended coverage of contemporary issues in performance analysis and contributions from leading performance analysis researchers and practitioners Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is a complete textbook for any performance analysis course as well as an invaluable reference for sport science or sport coaching students and researchers and any coach analyst or athlete looking to develop their professional insight. | Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

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The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

This book first published in 1954 collects together the papers presented to the Sixth International Congress on Accounting. They focus on the problems of the post-war changes in the value of money and how to deal with this in accounting statements; taxation and the role of accountants in Government; raising and retaining capital for development; and the role of the professional accountant in the commercial field. | The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

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Performance Studies An Introduction

Performance Studies An Introduction

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively accessible overview of the full range of performance with primary extracts student activities key biographies and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book’s topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments rituals play and games social media the performances of the paleolithic period and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences performing arts poststructuralism ritual theory ethology philosophy and aesthetics. Performance Studies: An Introduction features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. Performance Studies: An Introduction is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies the performing arts and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website offering a variety of interactive resources teaching tools and research links. | Performance Studies An Introduction

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Setting the Scene Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre Architecture

Setting the Scene Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre Architecture

During the twentieth century an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new approaches to staging and performance while theatre was often thought to have a reforming role in society. Innovation was accompanied by the revival and reinterpretation of older ideas. The contributors to this volume explore these ideas in a variety of contexts from detailed discussions of key architects’ work (including Denys Lasdun Peter Moro Cedric Price and Heinrich Tessenow) to broader surveys of theatre in West Germany and Japan. Other contributions examine the Malm¶ Stadsteater ’ideal’ theatres in post-war North America ’found space’ in 1960s New York and Postmodernity in 1980s East Germany. Together these essays shed new light on this complex building type and also contribute to the wider architectural history of the twentieth century. | Setting the Scene Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre Architecture

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The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

Fifty years before his death in 2013 Nelson Mandela stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. In what came to be regarded as the trial that changed South Africa Mandela summed up the spirit of the liberation struggle and the moral basis for the post-Apartheid society. In this blistering critique of Apartheid and its perversion of justice Mandela transforms the law into a sword and shield. He invokes it while undermining it uses it while subverting it and claims it while defeating it. Wise and strategic Mandela skilfully reimagines the courtroom as a site of visibility and hearing opening up a political space within the legal. This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful performance of resistance and the dramatic core of that transformative event. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses contributors reflect on the personal spatial temporal performative and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces institutions and discourses of law contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom. | The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

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The British Impact on India

The British Impact on India

First published in 1952 imperialism is a regularly recurring historical phenomenon calling for neither approval not condemnation in the abstract. A more profitable exercise is to consider particular imperialisms and assess their spirit and their achievements. From this premise Sir Percival Griffiths proceeds to examine the political administrative and economic effects on India of British rule. Formerly a member of the Indian Civil Service later the leader of the British representatives in the Indian Legislative Assembly and now closely connected with commerce and industry in India and Pakistan he has the advantage of a three-sided approach. He was moreover playing an active part in Indian public affairs throughout the years leading to the transfer of power. In 1942 he declared that he would fight any government which resiled from the promise of independence for India and when the Cabinet Mission visited India in 1947 it fell on him to assert - on behalf of the British community in India – their conviction that independence must be granted without further delay. It is because he has thus been a close eye-witness of the events of the last three decades in India that he has written this book. Although Western civilization is often regarded by Indians as materialistic it is the spiritual rather than in the material sphere that British influence has been greatest. It has built up Indian nationalism; it has engendered in Indian minds a new concept of equality and of human rights; it has rekindled the scientific spirit; and is has profoundly modified the Indian intellectual approach to the problems in life. In all this there have been losses as well as gain – not least among the losses being the partial destruction of village corporate life and the spread of specticism among the intelligentsia – but there can be little doubt which way the balance lies. A further fifty years may have to elapse Sir Percival suggests before a final assessment of the impact of the British is possible. In the meantime the present book may be confidently recommended as the most authoritative and objective examination of the history and influence of British administration in Indian which has yet appeared; a book furthermore that may be expected to achieve the status of a standard work. | The British Impact on India

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