Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: Historicising Social Practice
1 The New Deal Imaginary
2 The Stakes of Social Practice
3 Prevented Futures and Usable Pasts
1 Rehearsals for Real Life
1 Performance and Critical Realism
2 The Roof Is on Fire
3 Code 33
4 Injunction Granted
5 Conclusion: Legislation and Rehearsals
2 Social Practice / Social Reproduction
1 Introduction
2 Cells in Organisms/Cogs in Machines
3 Black and White at the Rockland Palace: The Body against the Belt
4 Dance and Domestic Labour
5 Expectations and Welfare Reform
6 'Each Week We started with the Body'
7 Expectations at Capp Street Gallery
8 Conclusion: Reproducing Culture, Reproducing Life
3 Housing, Homelessness and Documentary
1 If You Lived Here …
2 One-Third of a Nation
4 Race, Nation and Usable Pasts
1 Documentary and Nationalism
2 Blackness and the Limits of a Usable Past
3 Project Row Houses
Coda: Utility and Social Practice
Bibliography
Index