Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ethnographic Research on Knowledge Production and Applied Theatre in Post-Apartheid South Africa

博士论文研究：后种族隔离南非知识生产和应用戏剧的民族志研究

• 批准号: 1019652
• 负责人: Carolyn Sargent
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1019652&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Ethnographic; Knowledge

Doctoral student Jessica S. Ruthven (Washington University in St. Louis), with the guidance of Dr. Carolyn Sargent, will investigate the potential for culturally-specific applied theatre programs to contribute to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care efforts. In several countries, theatre has provided an important space for popular expressions of resistance, education, and collective consciousness-building. Applied theatre genres have emerged as central venues in articulating local struggles against the effects of the epidemic. While audience reception and engagement with HIV/AIDS theatre has been studied quantitatively, its emerging importance remains understudied from a qualitative perspective. The research, which will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is driven by three primary concerns: (1) to determine the mechanisms by which applied theatre acts as a vehicle for health communication, promotion, and knowledge production about HIV/AIDS; (2) to determine the impact, as defined by both theatre-makers and audience members, of the two main contemporary HIV/AIDS applied theatre genres in the communities and personal lives of those involved; and (3) to investigate how the content and aesthetic forms of community-level applied theatre have shaped conceptualizations of health inequity, subjective illness experience, and definitions about what constitutes healing in South Africa. Through participant-observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of cultural products such as scripts and live applied theatre performances, the proposed project will investigate theatre-makers' and audience members' ideas about theatre as an institution involved in HIV/AIDS interventions. This research is important because it will contribute to understanding the culturally specific ways in which people affected by HIV/AIDS engage with national, international, and NGO efforts to produce and communicate knowledge about the epidemic. The project will provide data on how theatre interventions shape public health discourse, which may be directly considered in future development of public health strategies for engaging communities in HIV interventions. In addition, the research bridges the theoretical fields of medical anthropology and performance studies to provide an integrated perspective on contemporary applied theatre practices within South African health provision. Supporting this research also contributes to the education of a social scientist.

博士生Jessica S. Ruthven（华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校）在Carolyn萨金特博士的指导下，将研究特定文化的应用戏剧节目对艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防、治疗和护理工作的潜力。在一些国家，戏剧为民众表达抵抗、教育和建立集体意识提供了重要空间。应用戏剧流派已成为阐述地方抗击艾滋病影响斗争的中心场所。虽然对艾滋病毒/艾滋病戏剧的观众接受和参与进行了定量研究，但从定性角度对其新出现的重要性仍研究不足。 这项研究将在南非约翰内斯堡进行，主要关注三个问题：（1）确定应用戏剧作为健康传播、宣传和艾滋病毒/艾滋病知识生产工具的机制;（2）确定戏剧制作者和观众所定义的影响，两个主要的当代艾滋病毒/艾滋病应用戏剧流派在社区和个人生活的那些参与;以及（3）探讨社区应用剧场的内容和美学形式如何塑造健康不公平的概念化，主观的疾病经历，以及关于什么构成南非愈合的定义。 通过参与者观察、深入访谈和对剧本和现场应用戏剧表演等文化产品的分析，拟议项目将调查戏剧制作者和观众对戏剧作为参与艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预措施的机构的看法。 这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于了解受艾滋病毒/艾滋病影响的人参与国家、国际和非政府组织努力产生和传播有关这一流行病的知识的文化具体方式。 该项目将提供关于戏剧干预措施如何影响公共卫生话语的数据，在今后制定使社区参与艾滋病毒干预措施的公共卫生战略时，可以直接考虑这些数据。 此外，研究桥梁医学人类学和性能研究的理论领域，提供了一个综合的角度对当代应用戏剧的做法在南非的健康提供。 支持这项研究也有助于社会科学家的教育。