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Cultivating Research: The agency of the spectator in the individualized society

Dates:4 November 2014
Times:17:15 - 19:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:University staff, Current University students
Speaker:Dr Liz Tomlin
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Leading sociologists, such as Zygmunt Bauman and Ulrich Beck, have been defining global capitalism as the age of ‘institutionalised individualization’ since the early 1990s, yet such theories retain their currency and urgency today. This research presentation will highlight key aspects of their analysis in order to ask difficult questions about the efficacy – or inefficacy – of theatre as a vehicle for political change in the twenty-first century. Beginning with the familiar premise that political theatre should seek, in the broadest terms, to shift each spectator’s perception of the reality in which they live, I will suggest that this emphasis on the individual spectator, and his or her own responsibility for change, runs up against problems in the light of recent theories of individualization.

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Dr Liz Tomlin

Organisation: University of Birmingham

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Room SL01
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
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Stephen Bottoms

stephen.bottoms@manchester.ac.uk

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