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Applied Theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals: Crises, Collaboration, and Beyond book cover

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Applied Theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals Crises, Collaboration, and Beyond

Edited By Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib, Bobby Smith Copyright 2025
258 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is the first definitive publication to consider the intersections of applied theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a series of goals which have shaped development and social justice initiatives from 2015 to 2030. It brings together emerging and leading scholars and practitioners engaged in creative and community contexts globally. In so doing, the book offers critical... Read more

Acknowledgment

About the authors

 

Introduction

Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib and Bobby Smith

 

1.                   Understanding Applied Theatre in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals
Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib and Bobby Smith

 

Part One – Applying Theatre in Times of Global Crises

 

An Introduction – Abdul Karim Hakib

 

2.                   New Democratic Designs and World Making:  The Theatrical Public Sphere and the Struggle for the New Constitution in Zimbabwe -  Access to Justice and Accountable Institutions for All

Vibeke Glørstad and Kelvin Chikonzo

3.                   Applying Theatre for Development in Conflict: The Case of Jol/Ropp Communities in Plateau State, Nigeria

Millicent Ahupa

4.                   Nature, Art & Habitat Residency for the Body Performing
Lucinda Coleman and Ilaria Mazzoleni

 

Part Two – Collaboration across Geographies: Tensions and Complexities

 

An Introduction – Bobby Smith

 

5.                   Global North and Global South Collaboration in Training to Achieve ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’: a Case Study of Theatre for Development in Kisumu County, Kenya
Matthew Elliott and C.J. Odhiambo

6.                   Linguistically Sustainable Multilingual Interactions in Monolingual Institutions

Claire French and Sibusiso Mkhize

7.                   Working Against Myopic Vulnerabilisation: HEXlappies and Kind Practices

Katharine Low with Katrina Mokwena, Nicky Nyanga and Erica Lüttich

 

Part Three – Envisioning the Future: Looking Back to Look Ahead

 

An Introduction – Taiwo Afolabi

 

8.                   Resistances Inside the Neoliberal Model: Education and Prison in Chile
Penelope Glass and Viviana Soto Aranda

9.                   Applied Puppetry and Health Action
Matt Smith

10.               A Search for Cognitive Justice: A Tale Told in Three Acts
Selina Busby

 

 

Index

Biography

Taiwo Afolabi is the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre, the director of the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, and an associate professor at the University of Regina, Canada.

Dr Abdul Karim Hakib is a lecturer at the University of Ghana. His research focuses on Historicizing Theatre for Development (TfD).

Bobby Smith is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK.

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