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Author : | Bartley S. | |
Title | Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance |
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| Reference : | Bartley S.; Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance ;Research in Drama Education vol:22.0 issue: 1.0 page:62.0 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015675527&doi=10.1080%2f13569783.2016.1263559&partnerID=40&md5=7b487719d8f2917c26031947f2e6b2e1 |
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| Abstract | This article addresses the performance of labour in participatory arts projects and considers the implications of such activity on perceptions of the unemployed in the UK. Utilising a combination of biopolitical and necropolitical understandings of governance and drawing on two examples of theatre practice, Tangled Feet’s One Million (2013) and Helix Arts MindFULL (2013), I propose that participatory performance deploys bodily strategies to disrupt the construction of the unemployed in political rhetoric. As such, in a context of austerity, I argue this arts practice can function to support the agency of participants in challenging policy and seeking to re-establish the status of subjecthood to their precarious bodies. Additionally, I posit that specificities of the unemployed as a participant group illuminate broader complexities around value exchange within participatory arts practice. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
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