On Protest, a new special double issue of Performance Research edited by Julia Peetz, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Performance and Politics at Warwick TPS alongside former Head of School Andy Lavender, has been published. The issue includes an extended editorial by the two.

'We say something below about an age marked by protest, and the implications this entails for popular agency and political process; and expand on the instances of contemporary protest in a variety of geographical locations discussed by contributors', they write in the issue's introduction. 'We also consider how performance is structured into protest and how performance studies can provide a lens by which to analyse the procedures and repertoires of protest'.

The various contributions reflect on the relationship between performance and protest, the aesthetics of the women's protests in Iran, COVID-19 protests, anti-colonial student protests in South Africa, and more.

'There are many overlaps between the modes of protest and those of performance; and performance studies provides a lexicon that is helpful in addressing what protest is and how it operates', they write, with similar questions on presence, representation, actors, rhetoric, staging and more.

The issue, which has been in the works for multiple years, can be found here.