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Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict Building Just and Inclusive Communities. Volume II, Building just and inclusive communities
Title
Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict [electronic resource] : Building Just and Inclusive Communities. Volume II, Building just and inclusive communities / edited by Cynthia Cohen, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, and Polly Walker.
ISBN
1613320620
9781613320624
9781613320617
Published
[Oakland, California] : New Village Press, [2011] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiiii, 280 pages)) : illustrations.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Whereas Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, Volume II, Building Just and Inclusive Communities, focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. The case studies in this volume document examples from Afghanistan, Australia, Ghana, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States. This volume also offers resources, tools, and recommendations to help educators, artists, students, policymakers, and funders alike to become involved with, and contribute to, the emerging field of peacebuilding performance. The Acting Together project documents how divided communities in conflict regions across the globe draw on the power of performance to express silenced truths, rebuild severed relationships, and work toward justice. Born in 2005 of a partnership between the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University and Theatre Without Borders, the project grew to include the two-volume anthology Acting Together, the feature-length documentary film Acting Together on the World Stage, a website of related materials, and a toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," included with the documentary as a second disc and featuring practical guidelines and templates for further action. Taken together, these resources yield rich case studies, theoretical frameworks, and recommendations to help practitioners, educators, students, and policymakers understand and strengthen the emerging field of peacebuilding performance.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VII.
Project MUSE - Archive Film, Theater and Performing Arts Supplement VII.
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Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
Contents
Foreword : the rebellion of the masks / Salomón Lerner Febres
Preface : speak to the past and it will heal thee / Pauline Ross
Performing cross-cultural conversations : creating new kinships through community theatre / Eugene van Erven and Kate Gardner
Youth leading youth : hip hop and hiplife theatre in Ghana and South Africa / Daniel Banks
Change the world as we know it : peace, youth, and performance in Australia / Mary Ann Hunter
Stories in the moment : Playback Theatre for building community and justice / Jo Salas
"Do you smell something stinky?" : notes from conversations about making art while working for justice in racist, imperial America in the twenty-first century / John O'Neal
The permeable membrane and moral imagination : a framework for conceptualizing peacebuilding performance / Cynthia E. Cohen with Roberto Gutierrez Varea and Polly O. Walker
Lessons from the Acting Together Project / Cynthia E. Cohen with Roberto Gutierrez Varea and Polly O. Walker
Facilitating discussion and exchange / Cynthia E. Cohen, John O'Neal, and Polly O. Walker
Designing and documenting peacebuilding performance initiatives / Cynthia E. Cohen and Polly O. Walker
Recommendations and action steps for strengthening the peacebuilding performance field / Cynthia E. Cohen with Polly O. Walker
Afterword : reflecting on the intersection of art and peacebuilding / Tatsushi Arai.
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