Introduction: Leveraging Justice

This special issue explores how best to use performance to leverage justice for victims of trafficking, child soldiers, illegal immigrants, the poor, and others who lack recognition and protection within the legal and social apparati of national governments and some non-governmental organizations (N...

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Main Authors: Janelle Reinelt, Maria Estrada-Fuentes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2016-11-01
Series:Lateral
Subjects:
ngo
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25158/L5.2.1
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Summary:This special issue explores how best to use performance to leverage justice for victims of trafficking, child soldiers, illegal immigrants, the poor, and others who lack recognition and protection within the legal and social apparati of national governments and some non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This focus has emerged from a two-year research project on “Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance” between scholars in theatre and performance in collaboration with politics colleagues at University of Warwick, UK and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
ISSN:2469-4053