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- Participatory theater, is it really? A critical examination of practices in Timor-Leste (2013)
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- Gesellschaftsspiele: politisches Theater heute (2021)
- Theatre for development: an introduction to context, applications and training (2006)
- Das Theater der Unterdrückten und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Afghanistan: kollektive Ermächtigung und neue Dependenzen (2017)
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Gesellschaftsspiele: politisches Theater heute
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)
(2021) Sonderausg, 164 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-7425-730-3 (pbk)
Other Editions: Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2. Aufl. 2020
"Politisches Theater spiegelt gesellschaftliche Phänomene und diskutiert sie zugleich. Mit den Möglichkeiten der darstellenden, bildenden und aktivistischen Kunst vermittelt es zwischen Partizipation und Problematisierung, Selbstvergewisserung und Abgrenzung. Florian Malzacher, international verne...
Das Theater der Unterdrückten und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Afghanistan: kollektive Ermächtigung und neue Dependenzen
Peripherie, volume 37, issue 1 (2017), pp. 52-75
CC BY-SA
"Seit März 2007 organisieren lokale und internationale Aktivist*innen in verschiedenen Teilen Afghanistans beinah täglich Aktivitäten mit den unterschiedlichen Techniken des Theaters der Unterdrückten (TdU) des Brasilianers Augusto Boal (1931-2009) sowie anderen emanzipatorischen Theatermethoden...
Participatory theater, is it really? A critical examination of practices in Timor-Leste
ASEAS - Austrian journal of South-East Asian studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2013), pp. 102-119
"Dance, music, and oral narratives are an important and vibrant part of cultural practice and heritage in Timor-Leste. But while Timorese people have used such creative methods and processes during rituals, celebrations, and their fight for independence, today arts and artistic expression become an ...
Using participatory theatre in international community development
Community development journal, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 42-57
"International community development is increasingly using theatre as a tool. This article analyses this use, arguing that for theatre to be successful to support social change and development, participatory practice must be at its core. In exploring this, it looks at what affects theatre’s succes...
Theatre in/for development in Tanzania: a neoliberal nightmare
In: Trends in twenty-first-century African theatre and performance
Kene Igweonu (ed.)
Amsterdam; New York:
Rodopi
(2010), pp. 191-215
"This chapter explores the relationship between theatre and neoliberal policies in Tanzania. It analyses the consequences of neoliberalism for the Tanzanian theatre and exposes the challenges it faces as a simulacrum of people’s culture. I also present evidence on why it is important, when analyzi...
The last laugh: humour in community activism
Community development journal, volume 42, issue 4 (2007), pp. 470-481
"This paper uses Australian case studies to demonstrate the use of humour in social justice and eco-pax 1 movements. Drawing from the literature and from personal experience in activist street-theatre over more than twenty years, the author discusses the rationale and motivations behind humorous act...
Theatre for development: an introduction to context, applications and training
London:
Zed Books
(2006), 172 pp., index, bibliogr. p.159-166, abbrev.
"... this book provides students with an introduction to the theory and practice of Theatre for Development (TfD). Since the 1970s, TfD has established itself as a process through which communities can address issues within their own self-development through participation in theatre practice. From i...
Puppets with a purpose: folk arts, cultural communication, and development in India
Thesis Department of Anthropology University of Virginia
(2002), 66 pp.
"The use of folk arts in rural development clearly has limitations as to the role that it can play in changing people’s behavior, but it is an effective tool for communication in most cases. The greatest strength of this type of informal education lies in its ability to capture the audience’s at...
