Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: contesting performance in an age of globalization / Jon McKenzie, C.J. W.-L. Wee, and Heike Roms -- The many lives of performance : the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics / Diana Taylor -- Interdisciplinary field or emerging discipline? : performance studies at the University of Sydney / Gay McAuley -- The practice turn : performance and the British Academy / Heike Roms -- Rhetoric in ruins : performance studies, speech, and the 'Americanization' of the American University / Shannon Jackson -- Performance studies in Japan / Uchino Tadashi and Takahashi Yuichiro -- Between antipodality and relational performance : performance studies in Australia / Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall -- Critical writing and performance studies : the case of the Slovenian journal Maska / Bojana Kunst -- 'Say as I do' : performance research in Singapore / Ray Langenbach and Paul Rae -- The performance of performance research : a report from Germany / Sybylle Peters -- Translate, or else : marking the glocal troubles of performance research in Croatia / Lada Čale Feldman and Marin Blažević -- Performing postcoloniality in the Moroccan scene : emerging sites of hybridity / Khalid Amine -- Searching for the contemporary in the traditional : contemporary Indonesian dance in Southeast Asia / Sal Murgiyanto -- Word and action in Israeli performance / Sharon Aronson-Lehavi and Freddie Rokem -- Democratic actors and post-apartheid drama : contesting performance in contemporary South Africa / Loren Kruger.

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