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Applied Theatre RELATED TITLES Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System Caoimhe McAvinchey ISBN 978-1-4742-6255-2 Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing Veronica Baxter and Katharine E. Low ISBN 978-1-4725-8457-1 Applied Theatre A Pedagogy of Utopia Selina Busby METHUEN DRAMA Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, METHUEN DRAMA and the Methuen Drama logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2021 Copyright © Selina Busby, 2021 Selina Busby has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the Author of this work. For legal purposes the Permissions on p. xvii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design by Louise Dugdale Cover photograph © Rajshekhar Kundu All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021931282 ISBN: HB: 978-1-3500-8611-1 ePDF: 978-1-3500-8617-3 eBook: 978-1-3500-8616-6 Typeset by Newgen KnowledgeWorks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. For Graeme, who travelled every step of this journey with me, in every possible sense. vi Contents Foreword Helen Nicholson x Acknowledgements xiv Permissions xvii Introduction 1 A pedagogy of utopia 1 Defining social justice 2 The politics of dignity 9 Axiology of practice 16 What comes next? 18 1 Costa Rica: Utilizing a global vision to safeguard the local village 23 The context: The community at Yorkín 25 Axiological impasses 29 The globalization of a village 35 2 Partnerships, integrated community investment and nebulous utopia 45 Dharavi: A ‘sub-city’ 54 Pluralism or neo-colonialism? 59 Can the subaltern make theatre? 61 Embedded integrated investment 64 Cultural invasion or concrete utopianism? 68 Finding a nebulous utopia 70 3 Aspirational thinking: Social justice and critical pedagogy 73 Neoliberalism and social exclusion 75 The bridge to cultural capital 80 Cruel optimism and aspirational thinking 83 viii Contents Bridges crossed with critical pedagogy 92 Resistance or compliance in prison theatre? 93 The (broken) criminal justice system 96 The Children’s Theatre Project 99 Radical containment – or just plain violence? 102 Is making children’s theatre in prisons a pedagogy of utopia? 106 An ‘unfinished’ work in progress 109 Resistance or compliance? 114 4 Articulation and amplification 116 The politics of articulation 117 Walk a mile in my shoes: Irondale Theater 123 Becoming fully human and Edward Bond 129 An accordion shop, a riot and change 135 5 Finding a thirdspace 141 The spatial turn and safety 142 Heterotopia and the Halfway House Project 149 Not safe space or brave space, but a thirdspace 152 Thirdspace as intercultural meeting point 155 Youth theatre as thirdspace: Company Three 158 Brainstorm 161 The Company Three methodology 165 6 Geographies of resistance 173 The disruption of presence: NT’s Connections 174 Disrupting cultural spaces 178 Seeking spatial justice and jumping scale 184 Privatopia: The neoliberal dream? 188 Resisting spatial injustice in an urban village 190 Contents ix Conclusion 199 Concluding – but not final thoughts: The voices of Dharavi 199 Breaking barriers, breaking bread 201 A word, or several, from Dharavi 204 Notes 217 References 221 Index 239
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