Performance and Globalization (TPS-0222)

Spring 2027 · TPS 0222 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

“Globalization” names the conditions that control cross-border flows and interdependence of capital, labor, media, ideology, and the desires that incite and impede them. These conditions are often set into motion by projects of empire building and the mission to occupy, extract, and exploit land, labor, resources, and culture. But sometimes the elements are unruly, subjects ungovernable, and culture too opaque to appropriate. Sometimes the itineraries initiated by global projects create strange encounters in the ocean or shadow economies at the border that were not the intention of the institutional effort. Performance can be a useful method to trace the complicated itineraries of globalization, to capture ongoing and multidirectional movements. Further, performance repertoires travel with globalization: languages, rituals, taste, recipes, etc. Performance is also a tool of empire building, securing power through embodied pedagogy, and by stripping subjugated people of communication and culture. This graduate seminar offers students an opportunity to follow a performance practice, form, or genre across borders, and to consider how performance and culture are transformed by shifting migrations, attachments, and proximities. Readings and assignments are designed to assist students in applying a variety of analytics to their area of focus.

Course codes: TPS-0222, TPS 0222, TPS0222, TPS-222, TPS 222, TPS222

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