Intimacy, Dialogue, Power: Creative community practice and imaginations of citizenship in Malawi, India and the UK

这个跨学科项目在应用戏剧和发展研究领域之间开展工作，研究创意戏剧研讨会与公民和政治话语参与之间的关系。在这个以实践为主导的研究项目中，我将在每周的戏剧研讨会上与三个案例研究小组合作：马拉维的女囚犯、印度比哈尔邦的低种姓农村年轻人和英国的难民。该项目将关注参与者在工作坊内外的经历，以探索身体、学习和对话之间的关系。酷儿理论和研究方法被用来阐明创造性的工作坊空间，在这里，自我、他人和空间之间的规范关系被暂停，允许有形式的对话发生。这种时间和地点的怪异使参与者能够看到并审视构成我们世界的权力结构。在这个酷儿空间中与权力玩耍、体现和对话的体验，通过政治主体性和公民行为，影响了参与者在工作坊空间之外的行为。

This interdisciplinary project works between the fields ofapplied theatre and development studies, examining therelationship between creative drama workshops andengagement with citizenship and political discourse. In thisPractice led Research project, I will work with three casestudy groups during weekly drama workshops: femaleprisoners in Malawi, lower caste rural young people fromBihar, India and refugees in the UK. The project will look atparticipants' experiences within and outside the workshopspace in order to explore the relationship betweenembodiment, learning and dialogue that occurs. Queertheory and research methods are used to articulate thecreative workshop space where normative relations betweenthe self, others and space are suspended, allowing forembodied dialogue to happen. This queering of time andplace allows participants to make visible and examine powerstructures which constitute our world. The experience ofplaying with, embodying and dialoguing with power in thisqueer space impacts participants' actions outside theworkshop space, through political subjectivities and acts ofcitizenship.