Reenactment Case Studies

<p>Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics.</p><p>Reenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses living history historical reality television performance art theater historically-informed music performance experimental archeology pilgrimage battle reenactment live-action role play and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity embodiment affect the performative and subjective. As such reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making representation and commemoration. Yet in terms of its historical subject matter styles and subcultures reenactment is often nationally or locally inflected. he book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones as well as to the spread of new populisms and postcolonial and decolonizing movements. he book is the first to address these questions through reenactment case studies drawn from various world regions.</p><p>Forming a companion volume to the <i>Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field </i>(2020)<i> Reenactment Case Studies </i>s aimed at a wide academic readership especially in the fields of istory film studies memory studies performance studies museum and heritage studies cultural and literary studies and anthropology.</p>