- Title
- Theatre's radical potential: a study of critical performativity
- Creator
- Cinque, Silvia; Nyberg, Daniel
- Relation
- Culture and Organization Vol. 27, Issue 2, p. 115-131
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2020.1827257
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Joining the debate on ‘critical performativity’ as articulated in the field of critical management studies (CMS), we engage with Boltanski’s dual framework of critique to examine the development of an Italian critical theatre project. Based on an ethnographic study, we discuss the theatre actors’ experiences, thereby (a) demonstrating the potentiality of theatre for a radical critique of social reality, and (b) exposing how this potential is hampered in reproducing the dominant theatre institution. The reflective and contested theatre production is held up as a deflecting mirror – a heterotopic space – in considering CMS’ potential for radical critical performativity. The theatre actors’ experiences offer insights for developing the conceptualization of (radical) critical performativity by reflecting upon the role of the critical scholar in finding allies in the quest to normalize critique and developing heterotopic aspects of academia.
- Subject
- Boltanski; critical management studies; critical performativity; critique; heterotopia; theatre
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1423040
- Identifier
- uon:37895
- Identifier
- ISSN:1475-9551
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Culture and Organization on 29/09/2020, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2020.1827257.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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