The Grammar of Politics and Performance by Shirin M. Rai and Janelle Reinelt

Abstract

On the 17th floor of the Shard, I meditated on how the celebratory book launch of The Grammar of Politics and Performance might square with the environs of one the most emblematically corporatized and security-ridden places in the UK. Shirin M. Rai and Janelle Reinelt’s edited volume is part of Routledge’s ‘Interventions’ series, and the book launch accordingly featured an interdisciplinary panel of commentators who posed critical questions about the book’s central provocation: how can the interrelatedness of politics and performance be expanded on in academic scholarship? Written by scholars from politics and performance, the volume points readers to what Rai and Reinelt argue are interdisciplinary methods that could better ground and unite critical discourse.