Affiliation:
1. 1 Co-Artistic Director (Research) at Collective Encounters; PGR at Edge Hill University
2. 2 Executive Director at Collective Encounters, and Master’s Candidate at Italia Conti
3. 3 Member of the Collective Encounters Radical Researchers Group
Abstract
Abstract
Drama facilitation takes place in “social world” spacetimes that are governed by hegemonic norms. These are created by a complex interplay of global historical processes, the specifics of local factors in the present, and the experience of participants. In Merseyside, UK, these processes create intersectional oppression, which, despite a rhetoric of “inclusion,” renders engagement in creative work either uncomfortable or unobtainable for diasporic and working-class communities in the area. These communities also continue to disproportionately experience various forms of violence. Our response is a trauma-informed “conscientization through the body,” using an eclectic mix of emergent methodologies that intentionally co-create emancipatory spacetimes.
Publisher
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library
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