Notes on Contributors Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization; J.McKenzie, C.J.W.-L.Wee & H.Roms PART I: INSTITUTIONALIZING PERFORMANCE STUDIES The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; D.Taylor Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; G.McAuley The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; H.Roms Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the ''Americanization'' of the American University; S.Jackson Performance Studies in Japan; U.Tadashi& T.Yuichiro PART II: CONTESTING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THROUGH PERFORMANCE Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia; E.Scheer& P.Eckersall Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Slovenian Journal Maska ; B.Kunst ''Say as I Do'': Performance Research in Singapore; R.Langenbach& P.Rae The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany; S.Peters Translate, or Else: Marking the Global Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia; ?.Feldman& M.Blaževi? PART III: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity; K.Amine Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia; S.Murgiyanto Word and Action in Israeli Performance; S.Aronson-Lehavi& F.Rokem Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; L.Kruger Index
