Ryan, H. and Flinders, M.V. orcid.org/0000-0003-3585-9010 (2018) From senseless to sensory democracy: insights from applied and participatory theatre. Politics, 38 (2). pp. 133-147. ISSN 0263-3957
Abstract
This article seeks to stimulate a fresh and inter-disciplinary debate which revolves around the need to move from a ‘senseless democracy’ that is insufficiently attuned to the dilemmas and challenges of fostering meaningful political engagement to a more ‘sensory democracy’. It achieves this by first exploring and dissecting recent works within democratic theory that emphasize the role of ‘watching’ and ‘listening’ within socio-political relationships. It then goes on to develop a set of constructive criticisms by applying insights drawn from the fields of practical aesthetics and applied theatre. Not only does this exercise allow us to take the analytical lens far beyond the focus on voice-based forms of expression that have hitherto dominated political analysis, it demonstrates the value of inter-disciplinary scholarship in exposing sensory-subtleties that raise distinctive questions for both politics ‘as theory’ and politics ‘as practice’.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Politics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | democracy; theatre; applied theatre; aesthetics |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2017 14:30 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2023 13:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0263395717700155 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112332 |