Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice​ (2019-2026)
In our current climate emergency, what if we had a single, infinitely renewable resource that could save us all?
Young people have taught us that this resource is HOPE. Our new project considers hope as a political alternative that can shift the narratives of climate change.
Objectives
To explore global questions of environmental and ecological degradation along with social and political polarization using hybrid genres of drama, performance, and digital media, to encourage an interdisciplinary conversation with young people about the nature of intersecting global crises.
To examine and extend the possibilities of a global ethics of care, as part of a framework for global citizenship, within and across global ‘locals’ where young people receive each other’s digital-live theatre productions.
To clarify how intergenerational dialogues, in which youth are positioned as ‘teachers,’ can advance the aims of global climate education, as youth leaders seek environmental and social justice and try to educate their communities in the current politically polarized era.
To advance new interdisciplinary methods for application in curricula and pedagogy in drama, media studies, and across the arts, through convergences of the digital and the live, the social and the ecological, and the local and the global.
Research Sites
Our research collaborators lead drama programs in six countries around the world.
Our Collaborators
Myrto Pigkou Repousi
Dr. Pigkou-Repousi is an Assistant Professor in Theatre in Education at the Department of Theatre (School of Fine Arts) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr. Pigkou-Repousi's doctoral dissertation charted how ensemble theatre contributed to citizenship education in disadvantaged schools in Greece.
Urvashi Sahni
Dr. Sahni is the founder of Prerna School and works in the area of personal and collective transformation through drama. She studies the scripted rules imposed on with lowest caste girls by home, making the domestic public, as students explore and express the politics of power that limit their lives.
Rachel Turner King
Dr. King is the Assistant Professor in Creativity, Performance and Education at the Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick. She examines the ways drama and theatre-based pedagogies can be used to create hospitable and convivial spaces for interaction between multi-ethnic communities.
Jorge Arcila
Dr. Jorge Arcila is a Colombian-Canadian theater director, researcher and higher education teacher based in Bogotá-Colombia-South America. His work explores relationships between arts, collective memory and drama pedagogy in social and political post-conflict contexts.
Betsy Lan
Betsy Lan is a theatre artist, scholar, and teacher at the Junyi School of Innovation in Taitung, Taiwan.
Chia-ling Yang
Chia-ling Yang is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Gender Education, National Kaoshiung Normal University in Kaoshiung, Taiwan.