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Moving Spaces : Mapping the Drama Room as Heterotopia
- Source :
- Education Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 3, Education Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 67 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för de humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnenas didaktik, 2020.
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Abstract
- This article is aimed at exploring the political characteristics of the drama space, which reflects, juxtaposes, and opposes particular sites in a participant&rsquo<br />s everyday life, such as the school. By putting spatial theories to work, this article investigates the drama space belonging to an all-girls community group in Sweden, participation in which is voluntary and where the artistic work produced relies on a democratic process, with the girls&rsquo<br />input being vital. I conceptualise the drama room as a heterotopia that functions as an exclusive and excluding space as a well as a space of resistance. Based on interviews with the girls, this ethnographic study challenges the conventional notion that applied drama is only an interrelational matter between the drama participants. By examining the drama room&rsquo<br />s role as the &lsquo<br />other place&rsquo<br />in the girls&rsquo<br />everyday lives while being connected to &lsquo<br />everyday&rsquo<br />places, this article demonstrates the drama room as an important space for the girls to have agency, there and elsewhere. When placing space and place in the foreground, a &lsquo<br />dramaspaceknowledge&rsquo<br />emerges, the influence of which stretches beyond the drama room. This article argues that the girls&rsquo<br />dramaspaceknowledge is utilised when creating a performance and while challenging structures and norms elsewhere, such as in their schools and communities.
- Subjects :
- heterotopia
Public Administration
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Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Resistance (psychoanalysis)
Teatervetenskap
Education
Politics
applied drama
Ethnography
skola
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Sociology
Educational Sciences
Everyday life
dramapedagogik
tillämpad teater
Social influence
Heterotopia (space)
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Performing Art Studies
supplementary education
heterotopi
05 social sciences
community teater
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06 humanities and the arts
Democracy
Computer Science Applications
Aesthetics
060402 drama & theater
fritidsaktivitet
public school
community theatre
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0503 education
0604 arts
Utbildningsvetenskap
Drama
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Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Education Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 3, Education Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 67 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....734b7eaac69fab8da776712d4d6ad5ba