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

这一跨学科项目介于应用戏剧和发展研究两个领域之间，考察了创造性戏剧工作坊与公民身份和政治话语参与之间的关系。在这个实践引导的研究项目中，我将在每周的戏剧研讨会上与三个案例研究小组合作：马拉维的女性囚犯，来自印度比哈尔邦的低种姓农村年轻人和英国的难民。该项目将考察参与者在工作场所内外的经历，以探索体现、学习和所发生的对话之间的关系。运用奇异的理论和研究方法来表述创作工场空间，在这个空间中，自我、他者和空间之间的规范关系被搁置，允许进行前身对话。这种令人惊讶的时间和地点让参与者可以看到并审视构成我们世界的权力结构。在这个奇特的空间中玩弄、体现和对话权力的经历，通过政治主体性和公民行为影响了参与者在车间空间之外的行动。

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.