Dedication
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements I
Acknowledgements II
Prologue
Part I:
Listening, Pedagogy, Theatre, and Cultural Citizenship
Listening as an Artful Practice of Care
Listening and Caring as Political Acts
Creating Social Value from Theatre
The System: Worlds Apart but Structurally Familiar
The Settings: Brief Social, Political and Educational Portraits
of Athens, Lucknow, Coventry, Tainan, Toronto
Athens, Greece: Setting the Context
Lucknow, India: Setting the Context
Coventry, England: Setting the Context
Tainan, Taiwan: Setting the Context
Toronto, Canada: Setting the Context
Ethnography and its Ecologies
An Overview of Data Collection
A Word about Ethnography
The Qualitative Landscape: Care and Cultural Citizenship
Daring to Dream in Greek Austerity
Misfit Citizenship and Political Personhood in India: A Methodology
of Critical Dialogue and Rehearsed Futurity
Hope, Performance Pedagogies, and Democratic Citizenship
Canley Youth Theatre’s Missive to the World—Listen
A Pedagogy of Hope
Tainan Students Making the World they Need
The Self, the Collective: Theatre and Social Change
Interdependency Against All Odds
Voicing Toronto Stories for a more Equal World
The Territory of Race, Racism, and Gender in Verbatim Theatre
Creation
Visible and Invisible Vulnerabilities in Oral History
Storytelling
Muckles’ Story of Hearing and Being Heard
Youth Alienation from Mainstream Politics: Who is the Knowledgeable
Citizen?
Devising Theatre, Identity and the Search for Structure and
Meaning
Hope and Care in the Quantitative Landscape
Key Quantitative Findings Across Sites
‘Outside the Mainstream’ and the Nature of Personal Hope and
Experiences of Care
Generating Hope through Self-Creation in the School, the Community,
and in the Drama-Making Space
Young People as Care-Givers
Finding and Giving Care in Context
To Conclude: Wrestling Towards Hope through Relationships of
Care
Epilogue: Acting in Concert
Turning Towards Part II:
Towards Youth Audience Research
Part II:
A Step Towards Youth
By Andrew Kushnir
Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope
By Andrew Kushnir
Appendix
References
Index
Kathleen Gallagher is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a
Distinguished Professor in the department of Curriculum, Teaching
and Learning, and Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and
Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Kushnir is an independent artist and artistic director of
Project: Humanity
"In a time of so much despair, this book is a creative tour de
force full of hopefulness. It represents some of the finest work
and the most sophisticated art forms the field has seen. Hope in a
Collapsing World is beautiful, breathtaking, moving, and
thoughtful."--Jo-Anne Dillabough, Professor, Sociology of Young
People and Global Cultures and Sociology of Education, Faculty of
Education, University of Cambridge
"This is a book that inspires as it educates. It charts ways in
which listening can be made a truly democratic practice, one that
calls forth connection, compassion, and care. Theatre provides an
affective medium through which young people can speak to the world,
and invite audiences to enter their acts of care. In activating
care, they sustain hope. Hope is here revealed to be a collective
process of turning towards the world with shared responsibility for
its precarious future."--Helen Cahill, Emeritus Professor, Graduate
School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia
"This book is vital. At a moment when everyone needs to feel
connected, Gallagher's empathetic and meticulous study of theatre
with young people brings the hope we need. Witnessing playwright
Andrew Kushnir and theatre educators reaching across the world is
moving and beautiful. Listening to young people's stories -
becoming attuned to their dreams and vulnerabilities - is not
simply a moment of creative care, but a lasting political
act."--Helen Nicholson, Professor of Theatre and Performance, Royal
Holloway, University of London
"An emotional and artistic feast, Gallagher's book is an
outstanding account of five years of transnational theatre-based
exploration. Hope in a Collapsing World thinks carefully alongside
an artistic and research process to inspire us as theatre makers to
listen more profoundly. I would recommend it to anyone seeking
respectful ways of working with and learning from young people as
they demand a more just future."--James Thompson, Professor of
Applied Theatre, University of Manchester
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