Abstract: From 15 to 16 February 2003, an estimated 10 million people in over 800 cities worldwide marched to protest against the second Iraq War. The largest anti-war protests in history, these rallies clearly demonstrated a global lack of popular support for the Iraq War on an unprecedented scale. Yet, unlike the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the governments of the American-led 'Coalition of the Willing' ignored the performing bodies of the 2003 anti-war demonstrators. In the mainstream media and scholarly commentary, the resistance movements were described as impotent and atrophied. The performative strategies of 1960s-style peaceful protest proved ineffectual models for the twenty-first century. The failure of these protests prompts the question: what is the relationship between politics and performance today?
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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