Specific Places/Global Spaces: Arrival — Neoliberal Placemaking in East London’s Royal Docks

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Beswick, Katie. 2024. Specific Places/Global Spaces: Arrival — Neoliberal Placemaking in East London’s Royal Docks. In: Victoria Hunter and Cathy Turner, eds. The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 15-28. ISBN 9781032254104 [Book Section]

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In this chapter, I use site-specific theory to think about the ways that local and global narratives and imagery intertwined in performance to rewrite a coherent history onto a landscape whose identity has been fractured and undone by neoliberal interventions. I ask questions about the affective and ethical implications of a deliberate placemaking strategy that co-opts artists and young people to serve developers’ branding (and ultimately profit-making) needs. I explore the ways the performance worked to create a specific site by pulling to the surface and making legible palimpsestic place meanings. I will ask how global issues, such as the refugee crisis, might take on particular resonances at particular sites by considering the way The Walk functioned within the frame of Arrivals. The chapter will include interview material with the director and with other participants in the making process, including local community members who performed in the show, and audience members who saw it.

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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283034

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“This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance on 17 December 2024, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Site-Specific-Performance/Hunter-Turner/p/book/9781032254104. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.”