{"title":"Theatre and Performance","authors":"Hannah Simpson","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It’s a cliché, of course, to open an annual review by pointing out how the texts under discussion reflect our contemporary moment. And none of the books reviewed here are modish responses to passing scholarly fads. All speak first and foremost to concerns located at the very heart of the theatre medium itself: the imaginative construction of alternative shared worlds, and the exploration of our hopes and fears around modes of interpersonal touch and intimacy. So, forgive me just one brief reflection on how it is surely no coincidence that the books that intervene most excitingly and meaningfully in the scholarly field this year are also those that speak to some of the most pressing anxieties and desires in the broader world as well, in the wake of pandemic contagion, the #MeToo movement, a cost-of-living crisis, and continued dystopic crises in both the academic industry and in national and global politics. The first section of this chapter, ‘Utopia’, reviews three monographs that discuss the intersections between theatre, concepts of utopia and utopian thinking: Siân Adiseshiah’s Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre, Selina’s Busby’s Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia and Ryan Claycomb’s In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation. The second section, ‘Touch and Intimacy’, reviews two books that cast an eye on questions of touch and intimacy onstage, from a contemporary practice-based and historical scholarly perspective respectively: Supporting Staged Intimacy: A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew, co-authored by Alexis Black and Tina M. Newhauser, and Alex MacConochie’s Staging Touch in Shakespeare’s England.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136314173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science and Medicine","authors":"A. Ramos, Danielle Spratt","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbac017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbac017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This review considers three monographs that use innovative archival recovery techniques to expand our understanding of the connections between the history of science and medicine and sociopolitical and cultural phenomena across the early modern period to the present. Divided into three sections, our review first considers Kalle Kananoja’s Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850, which demonstrates the ways that Atlantic African healers resisted colonial influence and adapted their practices to reflect innovative uses of global plant-based medicines. Part 2 of this review, Black Reproductive Health, examines Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood, which, importantly, revises longstanding assumptions about the ways that we understand and document reproductive health and justice, especially in the American Black community. Part 3, ‘Healthy’ Eating, discusses Elizabeth A. Williams’s Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950, which deconstructs the so-called connection between appetite and wellness in science and medicine. We have chosen to focus on these works both for the important new insights that they offer to the field of the history of science and because they each speak to contemporary crises in public health and health inequity that continue to affect our local and global landscapes. We suggest that works such as these have the capacity not only to expand our field but also to counteract narratives of white supremacy and other cultural beliefs that stigmatize and oppress; these works show us how expanding our understanding of the origins and current practices of medical knowledge beyond our traditional Western narratives can help provide healthier and more equitable forms of care and wellness.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85791571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Materialisms","authors":"Samuel Diener","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbac012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbac012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The works reviewed in this year’s essay on the New Materialisms raise questions about the field’s orientation to knowledge creation and to its subjects of study, critiquing universalizing discussions of the Anthropocene, questioning notions of ‘pure’ or ‘pristine’ Nature, and proposing considerations for ethical and scholarly attention. Along the way, they touch on the problems of human ontology, employ the New Materialisms as a method for scholarship across the disciplines and for applied scholarly and creative work, raise the question of the New Materialisms’ political stakes (or lack thereof), and attempt to negotiate relationships between Western academic knowledge-making and other forms and situations of knowledge. Following an overview of these questions in the introduction, the essay is divided into four sections: 1. Utopia Now, focusing on Jayna Brown’s Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds; 2. Clutter Culture, which discusses Rebecca R. Falkoff’s Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding; 3. National Dirt, on Mieka Erley’s On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality; and 4. Cartographies of the Anthropocene, which considers Anna L Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou’s multimedia online project Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78711335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychoanalysis","authors":"Jivitesh Vashisht","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbac015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbac015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter discusses four major works of scholarship—three monographs and an edited volume—from 2021 that stage fresh and highly topical encounters between psychoanalysis, politics, and aesthetics, with transformative consequences for each. It is organized into four sections: 1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch; 2. Reframing the Clinic (I): A Travelling Psychoanalysis for the Urban Poor, on Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor; 3. Reframing the Clinic (II): Cultural Objects and/as Psychic Objects, on Noreen Giffney’s The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic; and finally, 4. Literature and Psychoanalysis: Whither Now?, on Naomi Wynter-Vincent’s Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism and Vera J. Camden’s edited volume, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84198036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theory on Theory","authors":"Nicholas Carr","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_200813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_200813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90875104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial Capitalism","authors":"R. Jones","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbac008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbac008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter reviews theories of racial capitalism and black critical theory published in 2021 under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. History and Aesthetics (Histories of Racial Capitalism, edited by Destin Jenkins and Dustin Leroy; Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World); 3. Critical Theory (Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World); 4. Globalization and Technology (Neferti Tadiar, ‘Thresholds’; Seb Franklin, The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value); and 5. Conclusion.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"2 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83606933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance, Theatre, and Drama","authors":"Hannah Simpson","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbac007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbac007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The first section of this review, ‘Staging Reality’, reads two monographs that grapple with large-scale thinking about how theatre and performance engage with various ideas of ‘reality’: Lindsay Brandon Hunter’s exploration of performing ‘the real’ in theatre, television, and alternative-reality gaming in Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief, and Bess Rowen’s theorizing of ‘affective stage directions’ in The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment. The second section, ‘Politics and/of Performance’, reviews two books with an explicit interest in the political as well as aesthetic dimensions of performance: Tiziana Morosetti and Osita Okagbue’s edited volume The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race, and Jon Venn’s Madness in Contemporary British Theatre: Resistances and Representations. The final section shifts to monographs that structure their enquiry around a specific figure: the playwright Jez Butterworth, in the case of Sean McEvoy’s Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth, and the biblical figure of Salomé, in the case of Megan Girdwood’s Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome’s Dance after 1890.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72458340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and Representation","authors":"Joanna Rzepa","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbab009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbab009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In recent years, the relationship between religion and representation has been examined with particular intensity in the field of modernist studies, to which all books reviewed in this chapter have contributed. It is telling that three of them are devoted to Virginia Woolf, whose firm rejection of patriarchal Christianity and the established church has for years been considered a prime example of modernism’s hostility to religion. New scholarship on Woolf, religion, and spirituality offers a much more nuanced view of her engagement with Christian culture and illustrates the wealth of new methodological developments in the field of modernist studies. The review opens with a discussion of the recent religious turn in modernist studies, situating it within the expansion of the field connected to the emergence of the new modernist studies. Subsequently, it examines four new books that contribute to scholarship on modernism and religion. The chapter is divided into five sections: 1. The New Modernist Studies and Religion; 2. Jane de Gay, Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture; 3. Stephanie Paulsell, Religion Around Virginia Woolf; 4. Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf, edited by Kristina K. Groover; 5. Martin Lockerd, Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism. The books reviewed illustrate the scope and depth of new research into modernism and religion, offering a fresh critical perspective that challenges the widely accepted view of modernism as a purely secular movement.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88799511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Criticism","authors":"Nick Valvo","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbab007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbab007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This overview of recent work on the relationship between economics and culture takes the occasion of the Covid-19 pandemic to reflect on the urgency of creative thinking about biopolitics, in the process questioning the utility of apparent divisions between Foucauldian- and Marxist-derived approaches to the question of social reproduction.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79266751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Animal Studies","authors":"E. Giraud","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbab008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbab008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This overview of animal studies scholarship from 2020 covers a diverse range of sites – from escaped primates in IKEA carparks to boar hunting in colonial India – and disciplinary contexts, drawing together research from philosophy, literary theory, the environmental humanities, animal geographies, imperial history, and ecofeminism. What unites these texts is their engagement with one of the most significant themes in animal studies: the politics of anthropocentrism. The first sections of the essay engage with work that has sought to critique anthropocentric logics and practices. Through focusing on research related to the exotic pet trade, avian extinction, and colonial science, I illustrate how anthropocentric hierarchies are being enacted – but also complicated – but particular socio-economic relationships and knowledge-frameworks. In the second sections of the essay, I engage more explicitly with scholarship that has foregrounded the complex relationships between anthropocentrism, colonialism, gendered inequalities, and racialization. Although this research is wide-ranging, what it shares is an insistence on the need to better situate narratives about the intersection of human and animal oppression, in light of the way these relations are shaped by specific national and cultural contexts. The essay culminates by discussing contemporary critiques of animal studies due to the primacy it has given to anthropocentrism over other oppressive social relations, particularly race. At the same time as arguing that the field needs to meaningfully engage with these critiques moving forward, I conclude by suggesting that there is something important about anthropocentrism that means it retains value as a critical concept for animal studies.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79816451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
