Performance Research Volume 30 Issue 1

This issue contends that state violence is not an aberration or outlier but is intrinsic to the state's nature. Contributions use decolonial, feminist, queer and Marxist perspectives to examine the role of 'performance', broadly conceived, in relation to law enforcement, criminal justice, the military, surveillance, censorship, borders, racialisation, gender policing, and welfare. 'On State Violence' reconsiders the discipline's approach to state violence and asks how the field might act, critically and creatively, amid its enduring presence in an age of globally resurgent authoritarianism.