Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre
- 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
- 50981047
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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- Title of edition
- Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
- 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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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As editors of the volume (50%/50%), Hughes and Nicholson commissioned a series of research essays from a range of international voices. Authors were tasked with engaging in a process of re-conceptualising the content and form of applied theatre as a field of research and practice. Our editorial aim was to generate an unashamedly scholarly intervention, where applied theatre was receiving much attention from academic publishers seeking to commission new publications in a fast-moving market for academic publication. Here, publishers have tended to privilege teaching texts and practice guides, valuable outputs in themselves, but creating a limited field of scholarship. In response, this edited volume aimed to curate research-rich, high-quality, extended essays from key scholars. The collection provides a platform for original research essays that engage with the complex seams of current debate as well as areas that have perhaps been neglected by scholars (for example, the histories of applied theatre practices). The two editors conceptualised the three-part structure for the edited collection (Histories and Cultural Memories; Place, Community and Environment; Poetics and Participation) and worked on submissions (Hughes 50%; Nicholson 50%). The volume represents an original collection of work that engages in-depth with some of the most complex areas of applied theatre practice, from how its ready co-option by neoliberal economic agendas counteracts aims to creatively engage with climate crisis, to its tendency to focus on short-term outcomes over the necessarily more slow, culturally-sensitive work towards sustained social change, through to, more hopefully, its capacities to revalue/strengthen cultural memory as part of integrating migrant populations into the new cityscapes of global capitalism. The output for assessment here is the co-authored introduction, ‘Applied theatre: ecology of practices’, pp. 1-12, and Hughes’ chapter, ‘A pre-history of applied theatre: work, house, perform’, pp. 40-60.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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