Performances of Protest and Resistance
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- ISBN 9781350465725
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This edited collection includes contributions across various disciplines to analyze performances of political resistance and protest to Russia’s authoritarian and hegemonic practices after the collapse of the Berlin wall and specifically under Putin.
It examines how these performances operate as an immediate response to the oppressive moment but also harbour 'the possibility of difference… the possibility that the past may yet have another future' (DeFranz and Furtado).
In the context of Russia’s Post-Soviet histories of rising nationalism and neo-colonialism, the volume addresses such questions as, What are the ways to consider expressions of resistance and their potential to contest or disrupt autocracy and coloniality on a historical continuum and today? How do the expressions, languages, and forms of resistance reemerge, replicate, and intersect across past decades and artistic mediums? And how do they perform marginality, reveal perspectives of the other, and gesture toward the future?
International and interdisciplinary in scope, it considers performance of protest in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Hungary, Poland, and the Caucasus and Central Asian regions of the former Soviet Union. The range of performances of resistance is equally broad, encompassing performing a social or religious ritual in a public sphere, public speaking, collective or individual reenactments of past traumatic events, traditional storytelling, and social media activism or journalism.
Julia Listengarten is Professor of Theatre at the University of Central Florida, USA.
Yana Meerzon is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Varvara Sklez is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
