The recent barbaric murder of an investigative journalist in Malta who was looking into corruption at the top echelons of power sparked off a civil society movement, Repubblika, spurring ordinary citizens into participating in collective protest action. The movement also incorporated a loose grouping of women calling themselves ‘Occupy Justice’. Different forms of protest against government corruption have resulted in the resignation of various senior politicians and high-ranking officials, including the Prime Minister. Taking as a point of departure the struggle against the unequal distribution of power as defined by Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, the empowering force of civil protest is here examined in relation to how power is appropriated and how institutional power is resisted. Micromobilization and mesomobilization are seen as two means of staging protest and creating a common force with which to confront corrupt power structures. Protest, power, and resistance are viewed in the light of theatrical events; the creative means deployed to stage protests are discussed. The aesthetic qualities meant to transform perception and move people to action for bringing about political change are highlighted in relation to both sensory and symbolic dynamics. Vicki Ann Cremona is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and the author of Carnival and Power: Play and Politics in a Crown Colony (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), as well as a co-editor of Theatre Scandals: Social Dynamics of Turbulent Theatrical Events (Brill-Rodopi, 2020).

最近在马耳他调查最高权力层腐败的调查记者遭到野蛮谋杀，引发了公民社会运动 Repubblika，促使普通公民参与集体抗议行动。该运动还包括一群自称“占领正义”的松散女性。对政府腐败的不同形式的抗议导致包括总理在内的多位高级政治家和高级官员辞职。以反对米歇尔·福柯和雅克·朗西埃所定义的权力分配不均的斗争为出发点，这里从权力如何被挪用和制度性权力如何被抵制的角度来审视公民抗议的赋权力量。微型动员和中型动员被视为发起抗议和创造共同力量以对抗腐败的权力结构的两种手段。从戏剧事件的角度来看抗议、权力和抵抗；讨论了用于举行抗议活动的创造性手段。旨在改变感知并促使人们采取行动以实现政治变革的美学品质在感官和象征动力方面都得到了强调。Vicki Ann Cremona 是马耳他大学戏剧研究教授，着有《旨在改变感知并促使人们采取行动以实现政治变革的美学品质在感官和象征动力方面都得到了强调。Vicki Ann Cremona 是马耳他大学戏剧研究教授，着有《旨在改变感知并促使人们采取行动以实现政治变革的美学品质在感官和象征动力方面都得到了强调。Vicki Ann Cremona 是马耳他大学戏剧研究教授，着有《嘉年华与权力：皇冠殖民地的戏剧与政治（Palgrave Macmillan，2018 年），以及《剧院丑闻：动荡戏剧事件的社会动态》（Brill-Rodopi，2020 年）的联合编辑。