scholarly journals There’s a lot of work to do to turn this thing around: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Richard Schechner
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Solo Performance ◽  
Anna Deavere Smith ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline ◽  
Pipeline Project

For decades, Anna Deavere Smith has been a pioneer in solo performance art, engaging contemporary issues and social justice. Notes from the Field, the centerpiece of Smith’s latest endeavor, The Pipeline Project, explores the school-to-prison pipeline.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-268
Author(s):  
Mark R. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Exclusionary Discipline ◽  
Educational Justice ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
White Nationalism ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
The Impact

The concluding chapter documents the impact of the school-to-prison pipeline movement on reducing suspensions and challenging policing practices in schools. It then highlights the features that help explain the growth and success of the movement and its emerging intersectional nature—like centering the participation of people most impacted by injustice. It draws lessons from this study for reconceptualizing social justice movements as ones that “nationalize local struggles.” It considers the enduring challenges facing the movement to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, including the persistence of racial disparities in exclusionary discipline, tensions between local and national organizing, and the difficulties of implementing restorative alternatives that serve to transform deep-seated racialized processes. It ends with a discussion of the challenges and opportunities to building racial and educational justice movements powerful enough to fully transform entrenched systems of racial inequity and educational injustice, particularly in an era that has witnessed the rise of white nationalism.

scholarly journals Solidarity – rasa/autobiography – abhinaya: South Asian tactics for performing queerness

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Sandra Chatterjee ◽  
Cynthia Ling Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Solo Performance ◽  
The South ◽  
Spiritual Transcendence ◽  
Shared Identity

This article examines the work of D’Lo, a Sri Lankan-transgender-hip hop performance artist, and the Post Natyam Collective, a transnational coalition that develops critical and creative approaches to South Asian dance. The works utilize two strategies for performing queerness in relation to South Asian cultural practices: (1) autobiographic performance art rooted in identity politics and (2) the South Asian technique of abhinaya. These strategies use different modes of identification and audience–performer relationships. Autobiographical solo performance creates solidarity through shared identity or alliances between performer and audience. Abhinaya evokes pleasure and sensuality in multiple, ambiguous ways towards the goal of evoking rasa, ideally the audience’s experience of emotional–spiritual transcendence. We investigate tactical crossovers between the strategies of autobiography and abhinaya in D’Lo’s and Post Natyam’s work: how do they interact, where might they exclude each other, and what kind of performance of queerness emerges through their interplay?

scholarly journals Editorial: The Importance of the Astonished Eye

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
CHARLOTTE CANNING
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Theatrical Adaptation ◽  
Tahrir Square ◽  
A Performance ◽  
The Revolution

The four articles in this first issue of 2014 could not have, at first glance, less in common. The first piece, ‘Zooësis and “Becoming with” in India: The “Figure” of Elephant in Sahyande Makan: The Elephant Project’ by Ameet Parameswaran, examines the theatrical adaptation of a 1944 Malayalam poem by the company Theatre Roots and Wings. In ‘The Dynamics of Space and Resistance in Muhammad ‘Azīz's Tahrir Square: The Revolution of the People and the Genius of the Place’, Salwa Rashad Amin discusses the importance of ‘Azīz's play in the context of Egypt's recent and historical revolutions. Ketu Katrak takes up the performance of affect and its implication for social justice in ‘“Stripping Women of Their Wombs”: Active Witnessing of Performances of Violence’. Finally, Katia Arfara explores the work of a performance artist in terms of early twentieth-century precedents for European performance art, ‘Denaturalizing Time: On Kris Verdonck's Performative Installation End’. Theatre Research International readers will find much of value in each article, and they represent the kind of broad international focus our journal endeavours to provide.

Restructuring Educational Systems and Promoting Social Justice for Young People Involved in Drug Trafficking in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa ◽  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Dorothy Bottrell ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract. Economic changes in the context of globalization have left adolescents from Latin American contexts with few opportunities to make satisfactory transitions into adulthood. Recent studies indicate that there is a protracted period between the end of schooling and entering into formal working activities. While in this “limbo,” illicit activities, such as drug trafficking may emerge as an alternative for young people to ensure their social participation. This article aims to deepen the understanding of Brazilian youth’s involvement in drug trafficking and its intersection with their schooling, work, and aspirations, connecting with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 16 as proposed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 .

Tests, Minorities, and Social Justice

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 934-935
Author(s):  
JACK D. FORBES
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice

APA efforts in promoting human rights and social justice.

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 778-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick T. L. Leong ◽  
Wade E. Pickren ◽  
Melba J. T. Vasquez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice
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