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"Listen! we have something to say!” researching collaborative co-creation with youth using oral history and devising in a disunited kingdom

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Turner-King, Rachel (2020) "Listen! we have something to say!” researching collaborative co-creation with youth using oral history and devising in a disunited kingdom. In: Gallagher, Kathleen and J.Rodricks, Dirk and Jacobson, Kelsey, (eds.) Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies. Perspectives on Children and Young People, 10 . Singapore: Springer, pp. 47-66. ISBN 9789811512810

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During the Radical Hope Project, I worked as the lead UK researcher-collaborator. This chapter details the findings from two practice-led case studies conducted during 2016–2017 in partnership with The Belgrade’s Canley Youth Theatre (CYT) based in Coventry, UK. I reflect upon the interrelationships between the creative methods used to produce original youth performance (Case Study 1: oral history performance and Case Study 2: devising) alongside the research methodologies used to evaluate these collaborative theatre-making processes. Fundamental to The Belgrade’s practice is a desire to enable youth to become civic storytellers. CYT had so much to say about the world but translating their ideas into performance was often challenging. As a practitioner-researcher working alongside the youth theatre director, I was positioned to observe, listen, sense and respond imaginatively to their ideas, hopes, and fears. Drawing on ethnographic data captured using conventional methods such as participant-observation, video and photographic documentation, and participant interviews, this chapter turns towards the Radical Hope Project’s more experimental, collaborative, and artistic ways of generating and performing data, namely the research processes used to co-create theatre with youth. Specifically, I consider what Practice-as-Research (PaR) with youth involves. How do practitioner-researchers engage reflexively with the ethical demands of using data from our ethnographic encounters to co-create theatre that is simultaneously about youth, for youth and made with youth? How can ‘care’ be prioritized in our research processes of listening, collaborating, and creating performance? Following Sarah Pink’s discussion of the ‘sensory turn’ in ethnography (Pink, 2015), I retrace the data in search of the sensual, intangible and esoteric qualities of collaborative theatre-making with youth.

Item Type: Book Item
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Series Name: Perspectives on Children and Young People
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Singapore
ISBN: 9789811512810
Book Title: Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies
Editor: Gallagher, Kathleen and J.Rodricks, Dirk and Jacobson, Kelsey
Official Date: 2 January 2020
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2 January 2020Available
Volume: 10
Page Range: pp. 47-66
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1282-7
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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