Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Performance Studies in Canada: Mapping Genealogies and Geographies of Performance Culture 3
6. Performative Geographies
7. Calgary's Cultural Topography: The Performance of a City 43
8. Xeyxelómós and Lady Franklin Rock: Place Naming, Performance Historiography, and Settler Methodologies 67
9. Choreographies of Place: Dancing the Vancouver Sublime from Dusk to Dawn 90
10. Travelling Soles:Tracing the Footprints of Our Stolen Sisters 115
11. Spectacles of Nation
12. The American Girl Comes to Canada 137
13. Presumptive Intimacies and the Politics of Touch: “Strategic Culture” in Simulations of War 161
14. Sochi Olympics 2014, Canadian Truth and Reconciliation, and the Haunting Ghouls of Canadian Nationalism 184
15. Reframing Political Resistance
16. Enchantment's Irreconcilable Connection: Listening to Anger, Being Idle No More 211
17. On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian Performatives 236
18. Occupying the Object: Leslie Baker and Andréane Leclerc in Performance¹ 262
19. Practising Research
20. Two-Way Street: The Icon in the City 287
21. on love: Performance as Pedagogy 316
22. Writing the Red Trench: Performance,Visual Culture, and Emplaced Writing 340
23. Working Art – Working Knowledge: Doing the Visual and Making the Material Matter 358
24. Performance Studies and Canada 383
25. Bibliography 389
26. Contributors 435
27. Index 439