The chapters in this collection explore the constellation of points where stories of individual experience and experiences are in dialogue with political, cultural and social narratives.
Encompassing themes of individual and social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, motherhood, academic lives and what it means to be an arts practitioner, these stories and accounts continue and expand the ongoing conversations of how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, complex, personal and often deal with experiences that have been challenging for the author in some way.
Contributions from Ross Adamson, Suzy Bamblett, Emily Bell, Jenni Cresswell, Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze, Sandra Lyndon, Vanessa Marr, Jess Moriarty, Éva Mikuska, Holly Stewart, Deirdre Russell, Louise Spiers, Lucianna Whittle.
This is the first book in a new series. The Performance and Communities Book Series celebrates, challenges and researches performance in the real world. The series will consider how contemporary performance can engage, build and learn from previous, existing, evolving and new communities of people – practitioners, academics, students, audiences.
Table of Content
Introduction 1
Jess Moriarty and Ross Adamson
Explored through Creative Practice
Jenni Cresswell
Self-transformative Performance of Voluntourists in
Rural Malawi
Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze
The Production of ‘Self’ in Research and the Importance of
Intersectionality
Sandra Lyndon and Éva Mikuska
Blows’: How to Grow an Autoethnographer
Suzy Bamblett
Autobiographical Film Shock of the Muse
Deirdre Russell and Inga Burrows
Vanessa Marr
on Two Women’s Experiences with a Community Research
Project
Lucianna Whittle and Jess Moriarty
Emily Bell
Filmmakers
Ross Adamson
of Epilepsy
Louise Spiers
Examine Narratives within a Post-Brexit Society
Holly Stewart
Notes on Contributors 201
About the author
Dr Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton where she is a course leader on the creative writing MA and the English literature and creative writing BA. Her work is on autoethnography, communities of practice and developing confidence with creative work and academic life.
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