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E-book Theatre and Democracy : Building Democracy in Post-war and Post-democratic Contexts
This edition is a result of a longstanding collaboration between two cen-tres of applied drama, theatre education and research: the Department of Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Department of Arts and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. From 2017 to 2021 this collaboration has included student and teacher exchange, as well as arts-based research involving theatre companies and cultural centres. Join-ing our efforts and shared expertise from different cultural traditions, we collaborated to achieve our overall aim – to strengthen the quality of our work as well as bring increased attention and consciousness, within our universities and society at large, to the humanities and to the political value of theatre education and research. Equality and reciprocity are important virtues connected to democ-racy and to this collaboration project. Symbolic of the democratic ambi-tion that filters through this edition, is the space and opportunity given to several new researchers and PhD students, including an innovative col-lation of master’s student contributions (chapter 4). In the same spirit, we have deliberately chosen the Open Access publication format to ensure our research and stories – originating from many continents – reach all interested readers, among them students and creative partners who otherwise might not have had the opportunity to engage with our offer-ing. We also considered the differences in the socio-economic conditions for doing collaborative research in Norway and South Africa, respec-tively. Notably, a lack of paid research time is significant amongst the South African partners, and as a result this edition has been produced jointly, but on unequal terms. Consequently, in gratitude, we acknowl-edge that this has made great demands on the energy and dedication from some contributors, editors included.
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