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S. Bala

h-index: 9
Works: 64
Citations: 203

Most-cited papers

Global Activism : Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
P. Weibel, Can Altay, S. Bala, T. Bazzichelli +5 more
201532 citations
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Intraorbital Organic Foreign Body—A Diagnostic Challenge
A. Lakshmanan, S. Bala, K. F. Evans Belfer
2008Orbit26 citations
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The gestures of participatory art
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201816 citations
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Community art: the politics of trespassing
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201216 citations
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The global trajectories of queerness: re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the global south
A. Tellis, S. Bala
201515 citations
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Decolonising Theatre and Performance Studies: Tales from the classroom
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201713 citations Open access
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Development dramas: reimagining rural political action in eastern India
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20139 citations Open access
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The Entangled Vocabulary of Performance
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20139 citations
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Vectors of Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
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2012Theatre research international9 citations Open access
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Theatre for Women’s Participation in Sustainable Development
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20147 citations
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Waging Nonviolence: Reflections on the History Writing of the Pashtun Nonviolent Movement Khudai Khidmatgar
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20135 citations Open access
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Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico . By Patricia Ybarra. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. Pp. 288. $65 Hb.
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20115 citations
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Humor's Opponents: Artistic Activism and the Ludic Aesthetic
S. Bala, Veronika Zangl
20154 citations
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'Translation is the making of a subject in reparation': Elfriede Jelinek's response to Fukushima in 'Kein Licht'
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20144 citations Open access
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Workshops
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2019The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed3 citations Open access
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Remapping Performance: Common Ground, Uncommon Partners. By Jan Cohen-Cruz. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 252 + 10 illus. £60/$90 Hb.
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2016Theatre research international3 citations
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Workshopping the revolution? On the phenomenon of joker training in the Theatre of the Oppressed
S. Bala, A. I. Albacan
20133 citations Open access
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Ideas behind bars: the carceral state and struggles for academic freedom in India
S. Bala, L. Kadiwal, A. Kumbamu, Aninthitha Nath
2025Globalisation, Societies and Education2 citations Open access
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What is the impact of theatre and performance
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20192 citations
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International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline?
S. Bala, Milija Gluhovic, Hanna Korsberg, K. Röttger
20172 citations Open access
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Editorial: Humour in art and activism
Veronika Zangl, S. Bala
20152 citations Open access
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Introduction: The Global Careers of Queerness
A. Tellis, S. Bala
20152 citations Open access
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Dramaturgies of humour in the performance of protest
S. Bala, Veronika Zangl
20152 citations Open access
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De-stultifying spectatorship in the theatre of the oppressed
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20122 citations
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Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean
R. Allen, S. Bala
20241 citations
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Translation and performance in an era of global asymmetries
Mark Fleishman, S. Bala
2019South African Theatre Journal1 citations Open access
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Unsolicited gestures of participation
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2018The gestures of participatory art1 citations
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The Art of Unsolicited Participation
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20171 citations
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Scattered Speculations on the 'Internationalization' of Performance Research
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20171 citations Open access
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International Performance Research Pedagogies
S. Bala, Milija Gluhovic, Hanna Korsberg, K. Röttger
20171 citations
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Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect . By James Thompson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. x + 205. £50/$80 Hb.
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2010Theatre research international1 citations Open access
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The performativitiy of nonviolent protest in South Asia (1918-1948)
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20091 citations
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Introduction to dossier – on complicity: theatre, performance, and the question of Palestine
S. Bala, Marcus Bell, Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
2026Theatre research international0 citations
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Theatre and performance scholarship ‘after Gaza’
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2026Theatre research international0 citations Open access
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Big Books in Gender Studies
E. Steinbock, Rose M. Allen, S. Bala, R. Buikema +5 more
2026Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies0 citations Open access
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On the Destruction and Salvaging of Scenographic Possibilities: Reflections from the College of Music and Drama in Khartoum, Sudan
S. Bala, Shams Eldin Younis Nagmeldin
2025Theatre & Performance Design0 citations Open access
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Interruption and Interpellation
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20210 citations Open access
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Necessary misapplications: the work of translation in performance in an era of global asymmetries
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2020South African Theatre Journal0 citations Open access
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‘And while I am falling, I listen’: on translation processes in I turned away and she was gone (2014) Jennie Reznek* in conversation with Sruti Bala
Jennie Reznek, S. Bala
20200 citations Open access
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‘When you hold your eyes wide open, you actually don’t see fully’: on translation processes in the solo performance Ravanama (2011)
M. K. Krishna Rao, S. Bala
2019South African Theatre Journal0 citations Open access
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Theatre & National Identity in Colonial India: Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice. By Sharmistha Saha. Delhi: Aakar Books, 2018. Pp. 255 + 12 illus. Rs. 695/$89.99 Hb; $69.99 Ebook.
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2019Theatre research international0 citations
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Vicarious gestures of participation
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations
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Introduction
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations
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Conclusion: between image, act, body and language
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations
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Front matter
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations Open access
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Gestures of institutional critique
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations
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On the inconvenient means and ends of participation
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations
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Delicate gestures of participation
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2018The gestures of participatory art0 citations
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No more sewing machines! : The challenge of a women's archive in India
C. S. Lakshmi, S. Bala
20170 citations
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Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies. Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audrone Žukauskaitė. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 318. $145/£90 Hb.
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2017Theatre research international0 citations
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