| Id | 196 | |
| Author | Spiegel, J., B.; Parent, S., N. | |
| Title | Re-approaching community development through the arts: a ‘critical mixed methods’ study of social circus in Quebec. | |
| Reference | Spiegel, J.B.; Parent, S.N. (2018). Re-approaching community development through the arts: a ‘critical mixed methods’ study of social circus in Quebec. Community Development Journal, 53(4): 600–617, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsx015 |
|
| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsx015 |
|
| Abstract | Community arts projects have long been used in community development. Nevertheless, despite many liberatory tales that have emerged, scholars caution that well-meaning organizations and artists may inadvertently become complicit in efforts that distract from fundamental inequities, instrumentalizing creative expression as a means to transform potentially dissident youth into productive and cooperative ‘citizens’. This article examines how social circus – using circus arts with equity-seeking communities – has been affecting personal and community development among youth with marginalized lifestyles in Quebec, Canada. Employing a ‘critical mixed methods’ design, we analysed the impacts of the social circus methodology and partnership model deployed on transformation at the personal and community level. Our analysis suggests that transformation in this context is grounded in principles of using embodied play to re-forge habits and fortify an identity within community and societal acceptance through recognizing individual and collective creative contributions. The disciplinary dimension of the programme, however, equally suggests an imprinting of values of ‘productivity’ by putting marginality ‘to work’. In the social circus programmes studied, tensions between the goal of better coping within the existing socioeconomic system and building skills to transform inequitable dynamics within dominant social and cultural processes, are navigated by carving out a space in society that offers alternative ways of seeing and engaging. |
|
Results:
Smaller Distance better similarity
| Id | View | Author | Title | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900 |  |
Staniškyte J. | Spectatorship, politics and the rules of participation: Re-discovering the audience in contemporary Lithuanian theatre | 98.6534 |
| 545 | |
Fancourt D., Baxter L., Lorencatto F. | Barriers and enablers to engagement in participatory arts activities amongst individuals with depression and anxiety: Quantitative analyses using a behaviour change framework | 99.1698 |
| 823 | |
Williams E., Dingle G.A., Jetten J., Rowan C. | Identification with arts-based groups improves mental wellbeing in adults with chronic mental health conditions | 107.557 |
| 910 | |
Frieze J. | Reframing immersive theatre: The politics and pragmatics of participatory performance | 107.667 |
| 917 | |
Swift E. | What do audiences do? Negotiating the possible worlds of participatory theatre | 107.987 |
| 905 | |
Erel U., Reynolds T., Kaptani E. | Participatory theatre for transformative social research | 108.667 |
| 867 | |
Criss S., Kleinmann M. | Dotte agency: A participatory design model for community health | 108.79 |
| 802 | |
Bridger A.J., Emmanouil S., Lawthom R. | Trace.space: a psychogeographical community project with members of an arts and health organisation | 109.929 |
| 896 | |
Del Campo-Tejedor A., Cordero-Ramos N., Muñoz-Bellerin M. | Ethnography and colective theatrical creation. A decade of artivisme with homeless in Seville (Spain) Etnografía y creación colectiva teatral. Una década de artivismo con personas sin hogar en Sevilla | 110.927 |
| 153 | |
Walmsley, B., | Co-creating theatre: authentic engagement or inter-legitimation? | 111.324 |
MESOC has received funding
from Horizon 2020 - the EU Framework Programme
for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) -
under Grant Agreement n°870935.
We take your privacy seriously and WE DO NOT process any personal data or any information that reveals personal identity or information that can be linked to such information to identify directly or indirectly.
2021 © CD