Queer Political Performance and Protest

By:

Benjamin Shepard

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Advances in Sociology

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From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had a larger influence on the emergence of play in social movement activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past thirty years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation and queer activism, and the ways in which queer notions of play have influenced a broad range of social movements.

Author Biography:

Benjamin Shepard, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Human Services at City Tech/City University of New York. He is the author/editor of five books, including the second part of this study, Play, Creativity, and the New Community Organizing (also under contract with Routledge) and Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services (Sage).

Release date Australia

July 15th, 2011

Author

Benjamin Shepard

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

36 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

324

Series

Routledge Advances in Sociology

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780415897280

Product ID

10413711

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