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From senseless to sensory democracy: Insights from applied and participatory theatre
- Source :
- Politics. 38:133-147
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- This article seeks to stimulate a fresh and inter-disciplinary debate which revolves around the need to move from a ‘senseless democracy’ that is insufficiently attuned to the dilemmas and challenges of fostering meaningful political engagement to a more ‘sensory democracy’. It achieves this by first exploring and dissecting recent works within democratic theory that emphasise the role of ‘watching’ and ‘listening’ within sociopolitical relationships. It then goes on to develop a set of constructive criticisms by applying insights drawn from the fields of practical aesthetics and applied theatre. Not only does this exercise allow us to take the analytical lens far beyond the focus on voice-based forms of expression that have hitherto dominated political analysis, it demonstrates the value of inter-disciplinary scholarship in exposing sensory-subtleties that raise distinctive questions for both politics ‘as theory’ and politics ‘as practice’.
- Subjects :
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05 social sciences
Citizen journalism
06 humanities and the arts
Democracy
0506 political science
Aesthetics
060402 drama & theater
Political Science and International Relations
050602 political science & public administration
Sociology
Social science
0604 arts
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14679256 and 02633957
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Politics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d7de44018c77ad124d67ba5b32939440