Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre
Original language description
This chapter explores agonistic encounters in Irish theatre. Positioning its discussion in relation to the wider Irish theatre context in the first decades of the twenty-first century, the chapter foregrounds three recent theatrical works: This Beautiful Village by Lisa Tierney-Keogh (2019, 2020), Home: Part One collectively created at the Abbey Theatre (2021) and The Saviour by Deirdre Kinahan (2021, 2023) as striking examples of the diverse ways current Irish theatre performs dissensual speech. The chapter highlights these works as embedded in and speaking to the socio-political environment of contemporary Ireland, while at the same time acknowledging the ways their reach was extended by their availability in online formats. The discussion draws on Jacques Rancière's notion of dissensus as 'a division inserted in "common sense": a dispute over what is given and about the frame within which we see something as given' (Rancière 2013, 69), alongside reflections on agonism in performance from Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki's 2017 edited volume, Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy and the work of political theorist Chantal Mouffe. In a twenty-first century moment marked by extraordinary social transformation, these works, I will argue, suggest the complex contours not only of Irish public discourse, but also of the role of theatre as a space of critically meaningful agonism.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Routledge Companion to 21st Century Irish Writing
ISBN
978-1-03-230496-0
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
325-335
Number of pages of the book
484
Publisher name
Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publication
Abingdon
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