{"id":101,"date":"2016-10-30T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/14\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2016-12-14T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:05:09","slug":"special-topic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/14\/special-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Topic: Theatre and Statelessness in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reflections on Theatre and Statelessness<\/h4>\n

Azadeh Sharifi*<\/a> and S. E. Wilmer**<\/a><\/p>\n

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The motivation to edit a special section on theatre and statelessness evolves from the urgency of the outrageous circumstances so many refugees are facing, even though some of them are now “safe” in Europe. Not only is Europe drifting further into nationalistic politics, where not just refugees but all minorities and racialized groups are targeted by right-wing parties in many countries, but also the refugee laws and politics in Europe are becoming worse than ever, creating an impossible system for people who are fleeing the humanitarian crisis all around the world to apply for asylum legally.<\/p>\n

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A refugee is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the UNHCR, if they formally make a claim for asylum (en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Refugee<\/a>, accessed 16\/11\/2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

This is the impetus that drives us to write about the topic and to address the issue in every possible aspect, in order to create awareness about this humanitarian crisis. And for one of us the urge to write about statelessness comes from the personal experience of being a refugee, a state of being which will always be part of one\u2019s life no matter how long it has been there.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article here<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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*<\/a>Azadeh Sharifi<\/strong> is a writer, researcher and activist. She\u00a0is currently working on her Postdoc project\u00a0(Habilitation), “(Post)migrant Theatre\u00a0in German Theatre History\u2014(Dis)Continuity of Aesthetics and Narratives,” at the Theatre Department, Munich LMU. Her research interests include post-migrant theatre in Europe, postcolonial discourses in theatre and performances of race and gender. She is a former Fellow at the International Research Center \u201cInterweaving Performance Cultures,\u201d Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.<\/a><\/p>\n

**<\/a>Steve Wilmer<\/strong> is Professor Emeritus of Drama at Trinity College, Dublin, and a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. He co-edited (with Audron\u0117 \u017dukauskait\u0117) Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies<\/em> (Routledge 2016) and Deleuze and Beckett<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). He also edited a special issue of Nordic Theatre Studies<\/em> called \u201cTheatre and the Nomadic Subject,\u201d in 2015. He is currently writing a book called \u201cPerforming Statelessness\u201d for Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n

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Authenticity and Otherness: Reflecting Statelessness in German Postmigrant Theatre<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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\u201cWe Accuse Europe\u201d: Staging Justice for Refugees, Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Europe<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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Refugees in German Documentary Theatre<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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In Transit: Wajdi Mouawad\u2019s Scorched<\/em> in Bremen, Germany, as Theatre of Anticipation<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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(Un)making Boundaries: Representing Elfriede Jelinek\u2019s Charges (the Supplicants)<\/em><\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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Fugitive Performance: Nicolas Stemann\u2019s Die Schutzbefohlenen<\/em> and the Medial Matrix of Refugee Theatre<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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The State at Play? Notions of State(less)ness in Contemporary Interventionist Performances<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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Refugee Narratives: Case Farmakonisi or The Justice of the Water<\/em><\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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Unheard Voices, Unseen Faces: Staging Stories of Male Refugee Youth<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n
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“One in a Million”: Trailer with an introduction by Steve Wilmer<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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