Theatre History and Historiography Ethics, Evidence and Truth
- Submitting institution
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University of Worcester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- Cochrane_06
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 1137457279
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This collection of essays represents the first time a group of theatre historians have been brought together to reflect and write at length on the ethical priorities which direct and shape their work. As a whole the book is the product of a close, collaborative editorial process between Cochrane and Robinson which also, for a significant period, benefitted from the participation of Kate Dorney. All three had been convenors of the TaPRA History and Historiography Working Group. Cochrane led on the initial project proposal to Palgrave Macmillan and subsequently on the reframing and revisions required by peer review scrutiny. In the task of identifying and inviting essayists Cochrane extended the international reach of the collection and ensured a degree of historical coverage in the diverse fields of enquiry from the seventeenth century through to contemporary cultural practice. Drawing on research by Robinson and Dorney into philosophical approaches and principles, Cochrane then took on responsibility for assembling the substantial general introduction which, following further research, aims to set out basic taxonomies of ethical concepts and align the essays to current interdisciplinary scholarship in relation to questions such as historical responsibility, memory, empathy and interpretive understanding. A preoccupation with what has been excluded from the historical record necessitated a focus on virtue ethics and feminist epistemology together with the Levinasian idea of the ‘Other’. This then informed Cochrane’s own essay ‘Facing the Face of the Other’ which builds on her previously published work on the historiography of Black British theatre. The joint editing of individual essays which obliged contributors to work through several drafts was unavoidably very rigorous as subject positions were challenged and the evidential basis of conclusions interrogated. Robinson’s grouping of the essays under three key thematic headings signals the coherence of the overarching historiographic intentions.
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- Non-English
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