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Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre among Refugees

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Theorizing Identities and Social Action

Part of the book series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences ((IDS))

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to explore processes of identity constructions and transformations in the participatory theatre space and the links between these and social action. After a short description of the research project, the chapter sums up our main approach to the notions of identity and identity construction via a critical examination of previous theorizations of identity, especially those who used theatrical metaphors in their work. Drawing mainly on Goffman (1959), Butler (1990,1993), Bakhtin (1981, 1984) as well as Boal (1979, 1995, 2004), we focus especially on the relationships between self and non-self in identity constructions, narratives and practices. The last section of the chapter explores and illustrates the relationships between these processes and different kinds of social action, inside and outside the theatre space.

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  1. Nira Yuval-Davis
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  1. Open University, UK

    Margaret Wetherell

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Yuval-Davis, N., Kaptani, E. (2009). Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre among Refugees. In: Wetherell, M. (eds) Theorizing Identities and Social Action. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246942_4

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