The Possibilities and Limits of Participatory Theatre: Exploring Belonging and Resistance with Second-Generation Black and Muslim Dutch Youth in the Netherlands

Valerie Stam
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Valerie Stam: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Migration Letters, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 10

Abstract: Grounded in a collaborative theatre project with Black and Muslim second-generation Dutch youth in the Netherlands, this paper critically examines the use of participatory theatre as a method of knowledge production. Drawing on vignettes from the theatre project, I investigate the possibilities and limits of theatre as an embodied research method for practicing resistance to, and fostering public dialogue about, Islamophobia and racism. I argue that theatre can be a citizenship practice by prefiguring alternate futures, rehearsing resistance to oppression, and facilitating cross-racial and public dialogue.

Keywords: participatory theatre; racism; Islamophobia; the Netherlands; second-generation youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.33182/ml.v17i2.777

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