Amanda Rogers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Rogers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogers |
| SIGNATURE | ROGERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0454-8183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
No more NVivo ! Dealing with coding frustrations in a study of contemporary Cambodian dance
This paper offers a short reflection on the analytical practice of coding a large number of interviews as part of a long‐term research project on the relationship between contemporary dance and national identity in Cambodia. It probes some of the assumptions that we make about ‘coding’ interviews and how we do it, particularly the idea of seemingly neat, sequential ordering of analytical steps, as well as when the moment of analysis occurs. Rathe…
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence
Reactivating the Record: Performance, Spaces of History, and Researching the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
This is an autoethnographic reflection about doing research on the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company tour to the UK. Drawing upon research on performance, history and reactivation, I argue that the situated encounters, memories and experiences associated with performance documentation – the archival “record” – complicates our sense of performative endings. I reflect on the seeming inability to study an “original” performance and the passing o…
Dancers as diplomats? Quiet diplomacy and post‐conflict geopolitics in the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
This paper examines the relationship between performance and diplomacy during the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK. The tour stemmed from Oxfam UK's Kampuchea Campaign, which attempted to restore bilateral aid to the State of Cambodia by pushing for international recognition and a brokered peace settlement. Contributing to geographical work on diplomacy, the paper examines the different agents involved in the tour and their re…
The next chapter
Remaining with the Khmer Rouge: Contemporary Cambodian Performances Addressing Genocide in a Post-genocide Era
This article examines how the legacies and experiences of the Khmer Rouge (1975–1979) are expressed by contemporary dancers in Cambodia. It stems from the recognition that such works do not always resort to particular performative formats for their power and effect—specifically those that rely upon testimonial forms that promote the desire for showing, documenting, witnessing and healing. This is not to deny those dynamics in these works, nor the…
Reflecting on “Our Place”
In this conversation, we reflect on the development of a soundwalk produced by a theatre maker during her artistic residency in the Department of Geography at Swansea University. We discuss the approach taken to ‘place’ and the people in it, and the dynamics of an artist-geographer collaboration
Transforming the national body: Choreopolitics and disability in contemporary Cambodian dance
This article analyses how dance traces geographies of nation and national identity. Focusing on contemporary dance in Cambodia, particularly in relation to disability, it examines how some dancers are shifting the constitution of the national 'body'. The article extends geographical exchanges with dance studies by drawing upon the concept of choreopolitics and analysing how it produces variegated enactments of nationality. In the process, the art…
British East Asian Plays
Bookish cultural geographies
In this short editorial, we outline some of the reasons why we think books and book reviews remain important for the field of cultural geography
Advancing the geographies of the performing arts: Intercultural aesthetics, migratory mobility and geopolitics
Performance has become an analytical lens for examining a range of geographical phenomena. However, research specifically on the geographies of the performing arts has not kept pace with this broader field. Here, I argue for a deeper engagement with the theories and practices of the performing arts, particularly as research on creativity and the geohumanities gathers momentum. The article focuses on three areas where literatures from theatre and …
Material migrations of performance
This paper examines the multiple materialities of the performing arts and their transnational migration. In contrast to the majority of scholarship on the geographies of performance, which focuses on the space of the body, this paper provides an analysis of performance and materiality that encompasses, but also extends beyond, the corporeal through its attention to the material qualities of costumes, scripts and performance form. In conducting th…
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
Introduction: Transnational Geographies and 'Asian' Performance 1. Transnational Theatre Networks 2. Intersectional Identities in Transnational Theatre Part 1: Transnationalism in Context 3.Glocalisation at the Singapore Arts Festival 4. Performing Displacement: Asian American Diasporic and Refugee Theatre 5. Touring Transnationality: The Production of British East Asian Theatre Part 2: Transnationalism across Contexts 6. Singapore-Scotland: Tran…
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geographies of Performance
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses the cross-border relationships that exist within and between Asian American, British East Asian, and South East Asian theatres, investigating the effec…
Interview with Daniel York, Actor, Writer, and Director and Anna Chen, Writer, Performer, and Broadcaster
In the second of the two commissioned interviews for this Special Issue, we discuss the experience and politics of casting from the perspective of ethnic minority actors. Although there were a number of individuals and organisations who could have been approached, here we talk to Daniel York, who initially drove the debates after he was auditioned for, but not cast in, The Orphan of Zhao, and to Anna Chen, who spearheaded the media campaign again…
Asian Mutations: Yellowface from More Light to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Orphan of Zhao
In this article I examine the contention that the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC's) The Orphan of Zhao used yellowface. By comparing The Orphan of Zhao to a recent production of Bryony Lavery's (1997) play, More Light, I argue that yellowface is a highly mutable practice. In particular, I suggest that in the period between these two productions, contemporary British understandings of yellowface shifted from ideas around racial impersonation usi…
Thinking through Intercultural Spatialities onImelda: A New Musical
This article examines the performance of culture on a Filipino American musical called Imelda: A New Musical by the Asian American theatre companies East West Players and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. In so doing, it critically discusses how this musical moved towards a more open conception of spatiality. By analysing the context of production, processes of rehearsal, the performance's dance and costumes, and the musical's reception, this article …
La Maison de la Photographie and Tafza Berber Ecomuseum . Marrakesh, Morocco
Emotional Geographies of Method Acting in Asian American Theater
Method acting, in both theory and practice, is a technique that actively creates emotionally embodied performances. Yet the theory of method acting views emotions as experiences generated by an individual, independent of his or her social or geographical context. This article offers a spatialized rereading of method acting, highlighting the relational spatialities involved in the bodily performance of emotion, thereby developing literatures in th…
Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities
The performing arts of dance, theatre, music and live art have become established means through which cultural geographers can examine how people experience and make sense of their everyday worlds. Simultaneously, performance theorists and practitioners increasingly seek geographical tools that help elucidate the broader processes or politics that underpin artistic genres of performance. This review article works at this interdisciplinary nexus, …
Warding off terrorism and revolution: Moroccan religious pluralism, national identity and the politics of visual culture
This article examines the mobilisation of expressive culture as a powerful vector for social cohesion and disputation; I first discuss the implications of the symbiotic relationship between henna and the Hand of Fatima in nationalistic fine arts, and then analyse the state response to the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2011 Arab Spring. I argue that the endurance of the Moroccan nation throughout regional unrest is due, in no small part, to the…
Butterfly takes flight: The Translocal Circulation of Creative Practice
This article analyses the relationship between artistic practice and mobility through a focus on the translocal circulation of theatre. It works against the assumption that art and its creative practices are tied to particular contexts. Instead I suggest that examining translocal connection provides a framework through which to consider how practices of art-making are emplaced and differentiated, whilst also encompassing physical and imaginative …
Palaeoperformance: The emergence of theatricality as social practice - By Yann-Pierre Montelle
The need for practical workshops
Geographies of performing scripted language
Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities
The performing arts of dance, theatre, music and live art have become established means through which cultural geographers can examine how people experience and make sense of their everyday worlds. Simultaneously, performance theorists and practitioners increasingly seek geographical tools that help elucidate the broader processes or politics that underpin artistic genres of performance. This review article works at this interdisciplinary nexus, …
Advancing the geographies of the performing arts: Intercultural aesthetics, migratory mobility and geopolitics
Performance has become an analytical lens for examining a range of geographical phenomena. However, research specifically on the geographies of the performing arts has not kept pace with this broader field. Here, I argue for a deeper engagement with the theories and practices of the performing arts, particularly as research on creativity and the geohumanities gathers momentum. The article focuses on three areas where literatures from theatre and …
Geographies of performing scripted language
Butterfly takes flight: The Translocal Circulation of Creative Practice
This article analyses the relationship between artistic practice and mobility through a focus on the translocal circulation of theatre. It works against the assumption that art and its creative practices are tied to particular contexts. Instead I suggest that examining translocal connection provides a framework through which to consider how practices of art-making are emplaced and differentiated, whilst also encompassing physical and imaginative …
Warding off terrorism and revolution: Moroccan religious pluralism, national identity and the politics of visual culture
This article examines the mobilisation of expressive culture as a powerful vector for social cohesion and disputation; I first discuss the implications of the symbiotic relationship between henna and the Hand of Fatima in nationalistic fine arts, and then analyse the state response to the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2011 Arab Spring. I argue that the endurance of the Moroccan nation throughout regional unrest is due, in no small part, to the…
Transforming the national body: Choreopolitics and disability in contemporary Cambodian dance
This article analyses how dance traces geographies of nation and national identity. Focusing on contemporary dance in Cambodia, particularly in relation to disability, it examines how some dancers are shifting the constitution of the national 'body'. The article extends geographical exchanges with dance studies by drawing upon the concept of choreopolitics and analysing how it produces variegated enactments of nationality. In the process, the art…
Material migrations of performance
This paper examines the multiple materialities of the performing arts and their transnational migration. In contrast to the majority of scholarship on the geographies of performance, which focuses on the space of the body, this paper provides an analysis of performance and materiality that encompasses, but also extends beyond, the corporeal through its attention to the material qualities of costumes, scripts and performance form. In conducting th…
Emotional Geographies of Method Acting in Asian American Theater
Method acting, in both theory and practice, is a technique that actively creates emotionally embodied performances. Yet the theory of method acting views emotions as experiences generated by an individual, independent of his or her social or geographical context. This article offers a spatialized rereading of method acting, highlighting the relational spatialities involved in the bodily performance of emotion, thereby developing literatures in th…
No more NVivo ! Dealing with coding frustrations in a study of contemporary Cambodian dance
This paper offers a short reflection on the analytical practice of coding a large number of interviews as part of a long‐term research project on the relationship between contemporary dance and national identity in Cambodia. It probes some of the assumptions that we make about ‘coding’ interviews and how we do it, particularly the idea of seemingly neat, sequential ordering of analytical steps, as well as when the moment of analysis occurs. Rathe…
Dancers as diplomats? Quiet diplomacy and post‐conflict geopolitics in the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
This paper examines the relationship between performance and diplomacy during the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK. The tour stemmed from Oxfam UK's Kampuchea Campaign, which attempted to restore bilateral aid to the State of Cambodia by pushing for international recognition and a brokered peace settlement. Contributing to geographical work on diplomacy, the paper examines the different agents involved in the tour and their re…
Remaining with the Khmer Rouge: Contemporary Cambodian Performances Addressing Genocide in a Post-genocide Era
This article examines how the legacies and experiences of the Khmer Rouge (1975–1979) are expressed by contemporary dancers in Cambodia. It stems from the recognition that such works do not always resort to particular performative formats for their power and effect—specifically those that rely upon testimonial forms that promote the desire for showing, documenting, witnessing and healing. This is not to deny those dynamics in these works, nor the…
Reactivating the Record: Performance, Spaces of History, and Researching the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
This is an autoethnographic reflection about doing research on the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company tour to the UK. Drawing upon research on performance, history and reactivation, I argue that the situated encounters, memories and experiences associated with performance documentation – the archival “record” – complicates our sense of performative endings. I reflect on the seeming inability to study an “original” performance and the passing o…
Interview with Daniel York, Actor, Writer, and Director and Anna Chen, Writer, Performer, and Broadcaster
In the second of the two commissioned interviews for this Special Issue, we discuss the experience and politics of casting from the perspective of ethnic minority actors. Although there were a number of individuals and organisations who could have been approached, here we talk to Daniel York, who initially drove the debates after he was auditioned for, but not cast in, The Orphan of Zhao, and to Anna Chen, who spearheaded the media campaign again…
Thinking through Intercultural Spatialities onImelda: A New Musical
This article examines the performance of culture on a Filipino American musical called Imelda: A New Musical by the Asian American theatre companies East West Players and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. In so doing, it critically discusses how this musical moved towards a more open conception of spatiality. By analysing the context of production, processes of rehearsal, the performance's dance and costumes, and the musical's reception, this article …
The need for practical workshops
The need for practical workshops
Geographies of performing scripted language
Butterfly takes flight: The Translocal Circulation of Creative Practice
This article analyses the relationship between artistic practice and mobility through a focus on the translocal circulation of theatre. It works against the assumption that art and its creative practices are tied to particular contexts. Instead I suggest that examining translocal connection provides a framework through which to consider how practices of art-making are emplaced and differentiated, whilst also encompassing physical and imaginative …
Palaeoperformance: The emergence of theatricality as social practice - By Yann-Pierre Montelle
La Maison de la Photographie and Tafza Berber Ecomuseum . Marrakesh, Morocco
Emotional Geographies of Method Acting in Asian American Theater
Method acting, in both theory and practice, is a technique that actively creates emotionally embodied performances. Yet the theory of method acting views emotions as experiences generated by an individual, independent of his or her social or geographical context. This article offers a spatialized rereading of method acting, highlighting the relational spatialities involved in the bodily performance of emotion, thereby developing literatures in th…
Geographies of the Performing Arts: Landscapes, Places and Cities
The performing arts of dance, theatre, music and live art have become established means through which cultural geographers can examine how people experience and make sense of their everyday worlds. Simultaneously, performance theorists and practitioners increasingly seek geographical tools that help elucidate the broader processes or politics that underpin artistic genres of performance. This review article works at this interdisciplinary nexus, …
Warding off terrorism and revolution: Moroccan religious pluralism, national identity and the politics of visual culture
This article examines the mobilisation of expressive culture as a powerful vector for social cohesion and disputation; I first discuss the implications of the symbiotic relationship between henna and the Hand of Fatima in nationalistic fine arts, and then analyse the state response to the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2011 Arab Spring. I argue that the endurance of the Moroccan nation throughout regional unrest is due, in no small part, to the…
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
Introduction: Transnational Geographies and 'Asian' Performance 1. Transnational Theatre Networks 2. Intersectional Identities in Transnational Theatre Part 1: Transnationalism in Context 3.Glocalisation at the Singapore Arts Festival 4. Performing Displacement: Asian American Diasporic and Refugee Theatre 5. Touring Transnationality: The Production of British East Asian Theatre Part 2: Transnationalism across Contexts 6. Singapore-Scotland: Tran…
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geographies of Performance
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses the cross-border relationships that exist within and between Asian American, British East Asian, and South East Asian theatres, investigating the effec…
Interview with Daniel York, Actor, Writer, and Director and Anna Chen, Writer, Performer, and Broadcaster
In the second of the two commissioned interviews for this Special Issue, we discuss the experience and politics of casting from the perspective of ethnic minority actors. Although there were a number of individuals and organisations who could have been approached, here we talk to Daniel York, who initially drove the debates after he was auditioned for, but not cast in, The Orphan of Zhao, and to Anna Chen, who spearheaded the media campaign again…
Asian Mutations: Yellowface from More Light to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Orphan of Zhao
In this article I examine the contention that the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC's) The Orphan of Zhao used yellowface. By comparing The Orphan of Zhao to a recent production of Bryony Lavery's (1997) play, More Light, I argue that yellowface is a highly mutable practice. In particular, I suggest that in the period between these two productions, contemporary British understandings of yellowface shifted from ideas around racial impersonation usi…
Thinking through Intercultural Spatialities onImelda: A New Musical
This article examines the performance of culture on a Filipino American musical called Imelda: A New Musical by the Asian American theatre companies East West Players and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. In so doing, it critically discusses how this musical moved towards a more open conception of spatiality. By analysing the context of production, processes of rehearsal, the performance's dance and costumes, and the musical's reception, this article …
Advancing the geographies of the performing arts: Intercultural aesthetics, migratory mobility and geopolitics
Performance has become an analytical lens for examining a range of geographical phenomena. However, research specifically on the geographies of the performing arts has not kept pace with this broader field. Here, I argue for a deeper engagement with the theories and practices of the performing arts, particularly as research on creativity and the geohumanities gathers momentum. The article focuses on three areas where literatures from theatre and …
Material migrations of performance
This paper examines the multiple materialities of the performing arts and their transnational migration. In contrast to the majority of scholarship on the geographies of performance, which focuses on the space of the body, this paper provides an analysis of performance and materiality that encompasses, but also extends beyond, the corporeal through its attention to the material qualities of costumes, scripts and performance form. In conducting th…
British East Asian Plays
Bookish cultural geographies
In this short editorial, we outline some of the reasons why we think books and book reviews remain important for the field of cultural geography
Transforming the national body: Choreopolitics and disability in contemporary Cambodian dance
This article analyses how dance traces geographies of nation and national identity. Focusing on contemporary dance in Cambodia, particularly in relation to disability, it examines how some dancers are shifting the constitution of the national 'body'. The article extends geographical exchanges with dance studies by drawing upon the concept of choreopolitics and analysing how it produces variegated enactments of nationality. In the process, the art…
Remaining with the Khmer Rouge: Contemporary Cambodian Performances Addressing Genocide in a Post-genocide Era
This article examines how the legacies and experiences of the Khmer Rouge (1975–1979) are expressed by contemporary dancers in Cambodia. It stems from the recognition that such works do not always resort to particular performative formats for their power and effect—specifically those that rely upon testimonial forms that promote the desire for showing, documenting, witnessing and healing. This is not to deny those dynamics in these works, nor the…
Reflecting on “Our Place”
In this conversation, we reflect on the development of a soundwalk produced by a theatre maker during her artistic residency in the Department of Geography at Swansea University. We discuss the approach taken to ‘place’ and the people in it, and the dynamics of an artist-geographer collaboration
Dancers as diplomats? Quiet diplomacy and post‐conflict geopolitics in the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
This paper examines the relationship between performance and diplomacy during the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK. The tour stemmed from Oxfam UK's Kampuchea Campaign, which attempted to restore bilateral aid to the State of Cambodia by pushing for international recognition and a brokered peace settlement. Contributing to geographical work on diplomacy, the paper examines the different agents involved in the tour and their re…
The next chapter
Reactivating the Record: Performance, Spaces of History, and Researching the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
This is an autoethnographic reflection about doing research on the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company tour to the UK. Drawing upon research on performance, history and reactivation, I argue that the situated encounters, memories and experiences associated with performance documentation – the archival “record” – complicates our sense of performative endings. I reflect on the seeming inability to study an “original” performance and the passing o…
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence
No more NVivo ! Dealing with coding frustrations in a study of contemporary Cambodian dance
This paper offers a short reflection on the analytical practice of coding a large number of interviews as part of a long‐term research project on the relationship between contemporary dance and national identity in Cambodia. It probes some of the assumptions that we make about ‘coding’ interviews and how we do it, particularly the idea of seemingly neat, sequential ordering of analytical steps, as well as when the moment of analysis occurs. Rathe…
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