The Theatre of Urban

by Gallagher, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780802094834
• ISBN10: 080209483X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781442683891
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-05
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

"The Theatre of Urban not only provides new insights into the conflicts that often erupt in highly charged school spaces, it also explores the potential of drama as a powerful medium for personal growth and social change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Kathleen Gallagher is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Prologue	p. 3
Context	p. 9
Discourse, Space, and Competing Narratives	p. 9
Space and Subjects: Security, Surveillance, and 'Zero Tolerance'	p. 26
Photo Essay	p. 39
In the Field	p. 54
An Ethnographic Critique	p. 54
The Situated Character of Ethnography	p. 60
Disenchanted Youth, Falling Test Scores, Rigourous Curriculum and other Prevailing Myths	p. 73
Subjectivities	p. 84
The Social and the Artistic	p. 84
Social Dramas: Relations of Power, Gender, and Race	p. 91
Imaginative Trespassing and Ethnographic Artefacts	p. 97
The Gay Other Not among Us: Sexuality and Its Guises	p. 109
Dark Dramas: The Occupied Imagination	p. 128
Urban Obsessions	p. 140
Pedagogies of Conflict	p. 140
Alternative Literacies and the Sociology of Aesthetics	p. 155
Constituting Culture and Co-Research With Youth	p. 172
A Problem-Posing Ethnography	p. 175
References	p. 183
Name Index	p. 197
Subject Index	p. 203
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