The Journal of Applied Arts and Health ‘Puppetry and Health’, Volume 11, Numbers 1-2
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- CAST2
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Intellect
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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- Additional information
- This special double issue of the ‘Journal of Applied Arts and Health’ 11.1 and 11.2: Puppetry and Health, co-edited by Cariad Astles, Emma Fisher, Laura Purcell-Gates and Persephone Sextou, presents research in the emerging field of puppetry and health. It includes a 5,524-word editorial co-written by Astles, Fisher, Purcell-Gates and Sextou, which discusses the approach to the volume and contextualises both the work of the contributors and the rationale for the publication, drawing attention to the intersecting fields of material performance, puppetry, care, disability and therapy. Including contributions by scholars and practitioners from diverse cultural contexts, the collection particularly seeks to address the unique nature of puppetry in negotiating identity in contexts of illness, disability and in healthcare contexts.
Astles’ 8,634-word article in the journal, “Walk in/Walk as my shoes: puppetry and prosocial empathy in healthcare”, examines the practice of puppetry as a means to develop and enact empathy, and to explore its subsequent application to healthcare practices. Her further contributions to the special issue include: a 2,807-word discussion of puppetry under COVID-19, co-authored with Fisher; two interviews (2,694 words combined) which highlight the work of notable global puppetry practitioners working at the intersection of theatre and health; an analysis of the three ‘Broken Puppet’ symposia — part of a three-year collaboration between the UNIMA Research Commission (of which Astles is President) and the Universities of Cork, Newman and Bath Spa on applied puppetry — which led to this publication, co-authored by Astles and Fisher.
Astles conceived and proposed the special issue. The process of commissioning, working with contributors and peer reviewers, editing articles and ensuring global representation within the journal included three rounds of feedback to authors, guiding responses to peer reviewers and liaising between contributors, editors and the journal chief editors.
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