Legislative Theatre: Art for Community Conflict Resolution. From Desires to Laws

Salvador, Eduardo

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“…This process highlights for the stakeholders that often things are not as easy to do in practice as they are to suggest (Boal, 2008). A real strength of using the theatre methods was that they enabled ideas for solutions to be challenged in real-time by other participants with divergent views (Salvador, 2014). The second legislative piece theatre focussed on service delivery of firefighting.…”

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“…Theatre pieces were developed over a week in September 2018. The first phase facilitated cohesion of the community members involved in creating the theatre pieces, group work to identify the focal problem, and collective and artistic creation of the play including storyline, script and acting (Salvador, 2014). As part of this, individuals were asked to tell a story about how air pollution had affected them.…”

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Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

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Bowyer

Apondo

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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We present novel co-created transdisciplinary research that uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) in Nairobi, Kenya. Air pollution is a well-documented major human health issue, but despite many air pollution reduction interventions designed to improve health, these are frequently ineffective. Often this is because they fail to account for local knowledge, cultural practices and priorities of the intended recipients. Designing solutions therefore requires in-depth exploration of relevant issues with stakeholders. Researchers worked collaboratively with local residents to develop a range of methods to explore understandings of air pollution including interviews, storytelling, participatory mapping and theatre. Together, we uncovered contrasting definitions of air pollution, differing perceptions of who was responsible for enacting solutions, and overall a view that air pollution cannot be seen in isolation from the other issues faced by settlement residents. The methods used also allowed us to communicate about the topic with a wide audience. While we acknowledge that this research approach is more time consuming than traditional approaches, we urge other researchers wishing to address multifactorial problems, such as air pollution to use a mixture of qualitative, participatory and creative methods to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to elicit new and unexpected understandings that may not otherwise emerge.

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Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

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Apondo

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“…As Geraldine Pratt and Caleb Johnston (2007: 107) point out, by offering a space where conflicting perspectives can be articulated and negotiated in public, the Nuclei create 'an agonistic public sphere in which people who are situated in different class and other social positions, and who experience issues very differently, engage each other directly'. On the role of conflict in Boal's Legislative Theatre, see also Eduardo Salvador (2014). In The Aesthetics of the Oppressed, Boal (2009: 71-72) claims that his association between politics and conflict traces back to Machiavelli.…”

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Democratic Representation and Legislative Theatre

Dalaqua

2020

Theoria

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This article seeks to contribute to the debate on how political representation can promote democracy by analysing the Chamber in the Square, which is a component of legislative theatre. A set of techniques devised to democratise representative governments, legislative theatre was created by Augusto Boal when he was elected a political representative in 1993. After briefly reviewing Nadia Urbinati’s understanding of democratic representation as a diarchy of will and judgement, I partially endorse Hélène Landemore’s criticism and contend that if representation is to be democratic, citizens’ exchange of opinions in the public sphere should be invested with the power not only to judge but also to decide political affairs. By opening up a space where the represented can judge, decide, and contest the general terms of the bills representatives present in the assembly, the Chamber in the Square harnesses political representation to democracy.

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All Our Migrants: Place and Displacement on the Israeli Stage

Cofman-Simhon

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration

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Legislative Theatre: Art for Community Conflict Resolution. From Desires to Laws

Cited by 3 publications

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Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

Democratic Representation and Legislative Theatre

All Our Migrants: Place and Displacement on the Israeli Stage

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