The grammar of politics and performance

1. Introduction / Janelle Reinelt and Shirin Rai

Performing democracy : roles, stages, scripts / John Parkinson

Performance at the crossroads of citizenship / Janelle Reinelt

"I am an American" : protesting advertised "Americanness" / Cynthia Weber

Characterisation and systemic gender violence : the example of laundry and the figure of the mother in Irish culture / Lisa Fitzpatrick

Theatricality vs. bare life : performance as a vernacular of resistance / Silvija Jestrovic

Becoming a democratic audience / Alan Finlayson

Street arts, radical democratic citizenship, and a grammar of storytelling / Susan Haedicke

Tahir Square, EC4M : the Occupy Movement and the dramaturgy of public order / Sophie Nield

Temporality, politics and performance : missing, displaced, disappeared / Jenny Edkins

Performance and politics : ceremony and ritual in Parliament / Shirin Rai

Bringing the audience back in : Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the efficacy of public hearings / Gabrielle Lynch

Betrayal and what follows : rituals of repentance, healing and anger in response to the church sexual abuse scandal in Ireland / Joshua Edelman

Closet grammars of intentional deception : the logic of lies, state security, and homosexual panic in Cold War politics / James Harding

Afterword / Mike Saward.