This book explores the notion of home in the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, and asks how home and belonging can be rethought through the act of creative practices and collective writing with refugees and asylum seekers. Where Giorgio Agamben calls the refugee the figure of our time, this study places the question of home among those who experience its ruptures. Veering away from treating the refugee as a conceptual figure, the lived experiences and creative expressions of seeking asylum in Denmark and the United Kingdom are explored instead. The study produces a theoretical framework around home by drawing from a cross-disciplinary field of existential and political philosophy, narratology, performance studies and anthropology. Moreover, it argues that theatre studies is uniquely positioned to understand the performative and storied aspects of seeking asylum and the compromises of belonging made through the asylum process.
Chapter 1:Introduction: How Much Home Does a Person Need?.
Chapter 2:
Ontologies of Belonging: Philosophical, Historical and Narratological
Considerations.
Chapter 3: Dramaturgical Ethics: Undoing and Decreating.-
Chapter 4: Ethnoplaywriting: Creating Belonging.
Chapter 5: Rebooting the
Social Contract: Trampoline House and Deportation Centre Sjęlsmark.
Chapter
6: Fieldwork Reflection: Not just theatre, also politics, lawMaking
Theatre in Deportation Centre Sjęlsmark.
Chapter 7: You are enough, you
belong with us: Reimagining Sisterhood as Collective Belonging.
Chapter 8:
Fieldwork Reflection: The Sistas and Amazing Amelia.
Chapter 9: Conclusion:
Much Home.
Helene Grųn holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network, and is currently a Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is also a writer and librettist, whose work has been performed and published. Helene's academic work has appeared in Research in Drama Education and Scottish Journal of Performance. She often combines research and politically engaged arts-practice around themes of refugees, asylum, migration and storytelling.
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