Think differently, get creative’
Producing precarity in India’s corporate theater culture industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15080714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Saddler (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-35 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569783.2016.1263558 |
| OpenAlex | W2595310403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
In India’s rapidly developing global cities, large multinational corporations implement theater-based corporate training programs that are designed to inspire employees to be more dynamic, aspirational, and self-motivated at work. Offering a performance ethnography of a week-long Theatre in Excellence program hosted in Bangalore (2014), I suggest that the theater-based corporate training process is a site where the emergent Indian neoliberal laboring subject is being talked about, experimented with, and actively shaped. These practices illuminate how within India, a previously colonized nation undergoing rapid economic restructuring, theater and performance techniques are used to both interrogate and reproduce employee precarity within neoliberal capitalism
Aesthetics · Art · Business · Creative industries · Culture industry · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |