Periodic Reporting for period 4 - DevelopingTheatre (Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-04-01 do 2022-09-30
The societal importance is predicated on the shifting relationships between the global North and South. By investigating the history of these relationships in terms of its cultural and artistic imbrications, the project hopes to make clear how North and South have a history of collaboration which is not just determined by exploitation and dependency.
The overall objectives include a fundamental readjustment of theatrical historiography of the global South requiring a significant shift in focus away from individual playwrights or directors, who have stood in the centre of most research into postcolonial theatre. If theatre is understood as a form of cultural infrastructure, then it is logical that it was included in the social engineering projects of international development and modernization. A second objective is to demonstrate the need for qualitative and quantitative historiographical research supported by extensive data collection and visualization that will maximise opportunities for dialogue between individual researchers and across disciplinary perspectives. This will involve in turn a deeper engagement with methodologies of network analysis.