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Drawing on the forty year-history of social therapeutics, this chapter looks at the question of power and performance activism. It asks whether performance activism can be sustained and if it can stimulate mass systemic performances and, if so, how? It considers performance activism in relation to Antonio Gramsci’s concept of the struggle for cultural hegemony, challenges the value of ideology as a guide for social change and explores the relationship between performance, community building, independent funding, and sustainability.
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Friedman, D. (2021). Ontology, Community, Sustainability. In: Performance Activism. Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80591-3_19
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