Method and madness: de/colonising scholarship and theatre research with participants labelled mad

Sutherland, Alexandra

Title: Method and madness: de/colonising scholarship and theatre research with participants labelled mad
Creator: Sutherland, Alexandra
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2017
Date: 2017
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469566
Identifier: vital:77268
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2017.1326805
Description: This article discusses a long-term theatre project that I run with mental health care users and staff in a forensic psychiatric hospital in South Africa. I argue that the values underpinning the project align with those of Mad Studies, a field that is located as an emerging academic discipline within disability studies. The article seeks to problematise the conceptual frameworks available to a researcher working within theatre and disability in the global South. As a researcher, I may choose the framework of ‘madness’ as part of a social justice research stance. However, in a South African context of little to no psychiatric survivor/consumer activism, this may not in any way be adopted, understood, or claimed by any of the people who suffer ‘madness’ and with whom I create theatre. This article seeks to provoke questions around applied theatre disability research and the potential for research practices to de/re colonise.
Format: 9 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
Relation: Sutherland, A., 2017. Method and madness: de/colonising scholarship and theatre research with participants labelled mad. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 22(3), pp.427-435
Relation: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance volume 22 number 3 427 435 2017 1470-112X
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