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Article: THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PRACTICE: THINKING THROUGH THEATRE IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION.(Review)
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- Asian Theatre Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PRACTICE: THINKING THROUGH THEATRE IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION by Rustom Bharucha. Hanover: Wesicyan University Press, 2000. Hardcover $50
Rustom Bharucha in The Politics of Cultural Practice uses the metaphor of theatre as the "laboratory of the world" to consider the emergent issues of globalization, communalism, and culturalism through the paradigms of interculturalism, intraculturalism, multiculturalism, and secularism. Continuing the activist stance of his previous books, Theatre and the World (1990) and The Name of the Secular (1998), he addresses these issues with a series of questions (p. 2): "What are the ethics of representation ...