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Translate, or Else: Marking the Glocal Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia

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Contesting Performance

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How to challenge the disciplinary constraints imposed by global theories of the ever-widening field of performance, beginning with the linguistic demand to translate — terms, theories, aesthetics, traditions, texts, contexts, performances — or else ... fall out of both the system of academic communication and the visible arena of aesthetic performative practices?

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Feldman, L.Č., Blažević, M. (2010). Translate, or Else: Marking the Glocal Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia. In: McKenzie, J., Roms, H., Wee, C.J.WL. (eds) Contesting Performance. Performance Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230279421_11

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