Collaborative Performance for Social Justice: In Classrooms, on Campuses, and with Communities

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Tessa Carr Deanna Shoemaker

Collaborative Performance for Social Justice

In Classrooms, on Campuses, and with Communities

Tessa Carr, Deanna Shoemaker

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Routledge
02 June 2025

Performance art; Theatre direction & production; Communication studies; Social discrimination; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Routledge Social Justice Communication Activism Series

This engaging book offers a broad spectrum of collaborative and accessible performance-based practices that promote social justice within college classrooms, rehearsal spaces, campus stages and local communities.

Performance is an inherently collective and embodied endeavor. As a form of communication activism, performance also serves as a powerful mode of teaching and learning that demands equitable relationships and mutually established group norms that offer all a seat at the table. Informed by intersectional feminist and antiracist theories, the authors present collaborative performance case studies, ranging from interventions into local histories of oppression to creative protests of campus and cultural practices, to staged interruptions of social discourses and representational systems that perpetuate structural inequities. Illustrating the multiple possibilities of performance, the book offers adaptable tools, evocative stories, and vivid examples from diverse bodies of work. This engaged scholarship is committed to honoring multiple forms of knowledge, acknowledging and building the capacities of individuals and organizations, identifying and developing more spaces for critical dialogue, and envisioning and performing a more socially just world.

This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of communication, theater, performance studies, arts-based education, and social justice activism.

By: Tessa Carr, Deanna Shoemaker
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781032250830
ISBN 10: 1032250836
Series: Routledge Social Justice Communication Activism Series
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 02 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Tessa Carr is a Professor of Theatre and Dance at Auburn University, U.S.A. Deanna Shoemaker is a Professor of Communication and Performance Studies at Monmouth University, U.S.A.