Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements

Across the globe, in liberal democracies where the right to vote is framed as both civil right and civic duty, disillusioned creative activists run for public office on sarcastic, ironic and iconoclastic platforms. With little intention of "winning" in the conventional sense, they use drag, camp and stand-up comedy to undermine the legitimacy of their opponents and sometimes the electoral system itself. Electoral Guerrilla Theatre explores the recent phenomenon of the satirical election campaign.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• activism
• activist
• performance
• studies
• street
• theatre
• theater
• social
• movements
• culture
• jamming
• serious
• play
• subvertisement
• subvertising
• subversion
• protest
• satire
• irony
• comedy
• anarchism
• radical
• clown
• electoral
• guerrilla
• guerilla

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