Applied Theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals

Taiwo Afolabi is the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre, the director of the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, and an associate professor at the University of Regina, Canada. Dr Abdul Karim Hakib is a lecturer at the University of Ghana. His research focuses on Historicizing Theatre for Development (TfD). Bobby Smith is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK.

Acknowledgment

About the authors

Introduction

Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib and Bobby Smith

1. Understanding Applied Theatre in the Context of the Sustainable Development GoalsTaiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib and Bobby Smith

Part One – Applying Theatre in Times of Global Crises

An Introduction – Abdul Karim Hakib

2. New Democratic Designs and World Making: The Theatrical Public Sphere and the Struggle for the New Constitution in Zimbabwe - Access to Justice and Accountable Institutions for All

Vibeke Glørstad and Kelvin Chikonzo

3. Applying Theatre for Development in Conflict: The Case of Jol/Ropp Communities in Plateau State, Nigeria

Millicent Ahupa

4. Nature, Art & Habitat Residency for the Body PerformingLucinda Coleman and Ilaria Mazzoleni

Part Two – Collaboration across Geographies: Tensions and Complexities

An Introduction – Bobby Smith

5. Global North and Global South Collaboration in Training to Achieve ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’: a Case Study of Theatre for Development in Kisumu County, KenyaMatthew Elliott and C.J. Odhiambo

6. Linguistically Sustainable Multilingual Interactions in Monolingual Institutions

Claire French and Sibusiso Mkhize

7. Working Against Myopic Vulnerabilisation: HEXlappies and Kind Practices

Katharine Low with Katrina Mokwena, Nicky Nyanga and Erica Lüttich

Part Three – Envisioning the Future: Looking Back to Look Ahead

An Introduction – Taiwo Afolabi

8. Resistances Inside the Neoliberal Model: Education and Prison in ChilePenelope Glass and Viviana Soto Aranda

9. Applied Puppetry and Health ActionMatt Smith

10. A Search for Cognitive Justice: A Tale Told in Three ActsSelina Busby

Index