Empirics
Robert Walker uses the Theater of Cruelty as a conceptual heuristic to explicate agrarian struggle and deforestation in the Amazon Basin. So deployed, the “Theater of Cruelty” provides a structure for cruel performance, whereby violent land conflict and forest destruction compose a predictable tragedy of theatrical events. The Amazonian Theater involves a staging of such physical enormity that it is tantamount to life. Discourse becomes scripting for the bodies of the poor who engage a nemesis, the rancher, in an existential antagonism of historical and geographic reach.
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