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New International Partnership with JNU

Cultures of the Left: Manifestations and Performances

Funded by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Award, this three-year project explores:

• What is the legacy and current potential of the Cultural Left to perform the possibility ‘that the world can be otherwise’ (Buck-Morss)?
• How do manifestations and performances of the Cultural Left negotiate and adapt to various ideological frameworks?
• How has the cultural repertoire of the Left enabled cross-cultural influences and mutations in the performances of activism?

Led by Dr Silvija Jestrovic as Principal Investigator, with Professor Bishnuprya Dutt from JNU as the co-investigator, the partnership brings together scholars in theatre and performance studies with researchers in social and political sciences from both Warwick and JNU working in different cultural contexts (i.e. UK, India, USA, Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, China) and focusing on the variaty of aspects of the Cultural Left. Through research meetings and workshops, joint publications and guest lectures, the collaboration will not only set an interdisciplinary research framework, but also enable a unique cross-cultural and comparativist approach to identify what constitutes the global Left as an arena of cultural practice.