Theatre, poverty and economic justice
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 185712771
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- A collection of critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- January
- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This multi-component output was generated through a sustained period of investigation, supported in part, by an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship (2014-2016). Underpinned by focused research alongside collaborative activities with the potential to generate a transformative impact, the award supported a large-scale investigation of theatre, performance and poverty from a series of perspectives and engaging a range of partners. It generated a range of distinct, interconnected outputs for a variety of digital and published platforms. The project included extensive, in-depth intellectual engagement with a range of critical materials and archives, research-informed creative practice and participatory research in community settings.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This multi-component output consists of an extensive body of diverse work generated through a socially-engaged research project. It explores both historical and contemporary relationships between theatre, performance and economic precarity. Emerging from new and existing research partnerships with local Manchester organisations, the research investigated how artists engage with people and places designated ‘poor’. Through collaborative research with performers, theatre-makers, and communities, the project generated a set of perspectives on the diverse ways artists and communities make use of theatre, to critique and celebrate their localities, to creatively negotiate discourses and practices of deficit, need and vulnerability implicit in dominant models of state welfare and social care, and to create and disseminate shared performances of the value of their everyday worlds.
Many artists work with so-called ‘poor’ communities in which they are invested: the work produced is often rich in quality, diversity and aesthetic, as reflected in the range of items collated in the output. This includes a research-rich database and website which contains 200 texts, film and audio clips, interviews and images, a collaboratively generated PaR project (‘The House’), and sample public reports with partner companies and social agency partnerships across the city region (Royal Exchange Theatre/ New Charter Housing, The Men’s Room, for example). These outputs make use of a collaborative research methodology to create new insights on, and - often rough or unfiltered - documentation of, the problematic discourses of need, deficit and vulnerability that artists and communities are creatively negotiating via their working practices and artistic work. This double-weighted output also includes a body of publications: articles, chapters and special editions, generated by the AHRC project. The included research outputs have been disseminated across performance, applied theatre, youth and social work disciplines and networks, with the database available to the public as well as research communities.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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