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Foteini Venieri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interpreting social issues: Museum theatre’s potential for Critical Engagement
Museum and Society, 2017Co-Authors: Niki Nikonanou, Foteini VenieriAbstract:Museum theatre and its potential within museum education is explored at the Museum Education and Research Laboratory at the University of Thessaly, Greece. There, the leading research project Museums and Education: methods of approaching and interpreting museum objects’aims to address how, over the last few decades, museum theatre has been in ever-increasing use to vocalize the sensitive issues of a multicultural society and marginalized social communities. Recent studies highlight museum theatre evoking empathy and Critical Engagement in the audience with the subject-matter of the performance. One such performance was organized by the School of Drama at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied in depth. Titled Voices of the City: Historical Routes through Theatre, the performance embodied controversial social issues, and its implementation was evaluated using qualitative methodology to examine the responses of visitors.
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interpreting social issues museum theatre s potential for Critical Engagement
museum and society, 2017Co-Authors: Niki Nikonanou, Foteini VenieriAbstract:Museum theatre and its potential within museum education is explored at the Museum Education and Research Laboratory at the University of Thessaly, Greece. There, the leading research project Museums and Education: methods of approaching and interpreting museum objects’aims to address how, over the last few decades, museum theatre has been in ever-increasing use to vocalize the sensitive issues of a multicultural society and marginalized social communities. Recent studies highlight museum theatre evoking empathy and Critical Engagement in the audience with the subject-matter of the performance. One such performance was organized by the School of Drama at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied in depth. Titled Voices of the City: Historical Routes through Theatre, the performance embodied controversial social issues, and its implementation was evaluated using qualitative methodology to examine the responses of visitors.
Marek Oziewicz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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truth telling trauma fiction and the challenge of Critical Engagement a reading of breaking stalin s nose and a winter s day in 1939
Childrens Literature in Education, 2020Co-Authors: Marek OziewiczAbstract:The Great Terror of 1936–1938 and mass deportations of “enemies of the people” between the 1930s and the 1950s are among signature atrocities committed by Stalinist Russia. Claiming the lives of several million Soviet citizens and foreign nationals, these executions and deportations were a silenced topic until the collapse of the Soviet Union. When they emerged in twenty first century children’s literature, stories of Soviet terror and deportations became a subgenre of trauma fiction—a large category predicated on mourning authentic historical traumas and appreciated for its truth-telling value. Recent criticism, however, has pointed at the limits of truth-telling genres in engaging audiences. In A Literature of Questions Joe Sutliff Sanders argued that nonfiction is more productive when texts share authority with their readers and invite Critical Engagement. What form can that Engagement take in trauma genres? How can it be generative of dialogue or new knowledge? This essay offers a reading of Eugene Yelchin’s (Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Henry Holt, New York, 2011) and Melinda Szymanik’s (A Winter’s Day in 1939, Scholastic, Auckland, 2013) to argue that truth-telling need not be antithetical to Critical Engagement. The argument is that even texts whose authority derives from representations of historical atrocities can communicate their truths in a way that invites readers to interrogate the process by which historical knowledge is generated, articulated and remains meaningful in the present.
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Truth-Telling, Trauma Fiction, and the Challenge of Critical Engagement: A Reading of Breaking Stalin’s Nose and A Winter’s Day in 1939
Children's Literature in Education, 2019Co-Authors: Marek OziewiczAbstract:The Great Terror of 1936–1938 and mass deportations of “enemies of the people” between the 1930s and the 1950s are among signature atrocities committed by Stalinist Russia. Claiming the lives of several million Soviet citizens and foreign nationals, these executions and deportations were a silenced topic until the collapse of the Soviet Union. When they emerged in twenty first century children’s literature, stories of Soviet terror and deportations became a subgenre of trauma fiction—a large category predicated on mourning authentic historical traumas and appreciated for its truth-telling value. Recent criticism, however, has pointed at the limits of truth-telling genres in engaging audiences. In A Literature of Questions Joe Sutliff Sanders argued that nonfiction is more productive when texts share authority with their readers and invite Critical Engagement. What form can that Engagement take in trauma genres? How can it be generative of dialogue or new knowledge? This essay offers a reading of Eugene Yelchin’s ( Breaking Stalin’s Nose , Henry Holt, New York, 2011) and Melinda Szymanik’s ( A Winter’s Day in 1939 , Scholastic, Auckland, 2013) to argue that truth-telling need not be antithetical to Critical Engagement. The argument is that even texts whose authority derives from representations of historical atrocities can communicate their truths in a way that invites readers to interrogate the process by which historical knowledge is generated, articulated and remains meaningful in the present.
Kevin Hearty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critical Engagement - The Patriot Dead
Critical Engagement, 2018Co-Authors: Kevin HeartyAbstract:This chapter assesses the centrality of martyrology to Irish republicanism as an ideology. It examines how the dead become a useful political resource for competing memory entrepreneurs who are keen to sanctify their current strategies and in the process keep their grassroots support base on board during periods of political transition. It interrogates contending narratives on whether ‘Critical Engagement’ is in furtherance of or contradiction to the ideological goals that the Irish republican war dead sacrificed themselves for. The chapter grapples with the policing narrative proffered by each side; the narrative of ‘Critical Engagement’ being the extension of the courage shown by the dead during armed struggle and the counter-narrative that endorsement of policing represents a defeat of the goals for which the Irish republican war dead sacrificed themselves. It examines how commemoration and memorialisation were used by competing political groups prior to, during and following the Sinn Fein Extraordinary Ard Fheis on policing in order to bolster their respective positions through building a link of continuity with the martyred dead.
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Critical Engagement - Ideology and Policing
Critical Engagement, 2018Co-Authors: Kevin HeartyAbstract:This chapter Critically examines the overarching ideological dimension to the policing debate within modern Irish republicanism, interrogating how competing views of where Irish republicanism is currently at in transition and where it is believed to be heading in the future are construed through value laden interpretations of where is has come from. It evaluates how ‘Critical Engagement’ with post-Patten policing in Northern Ireland is interpreted through long held belief systems that frame the move in terms of congruence with or contradiction to past positions. The chapter posits that there are two contesting ideological models for understanding the current Sinn Fein strategy in transitional Northern Ireland; the ‘progressive republican’ model that interprets current Sinn Fein strategy as being premised on a change of tactics that has moved the pursuit of ideological goals from an armed struggle to a political struggle and the ‘constitutional nationalist’ model that interprets Sinn Fein strategy as an abandonment of Irish republican principles that involves a reformist working of the state that can ultimately only lead to assimilation into, rather than removal of, a partitionist state.
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Critical Engagement - The PSNI and ‘Community Policing’
Critical Engagement, 2018Co-Authors: Kevin HeartyAbstract:This chapter Critically evaluates how the interaction between memory politics and police reform processes shapes current views of community policing within Irish republican communities. Establishing the overarching context of post-conflict police reform within which opposing narratives on community policing are pieced together, the chapter critiques the impact that changes in police symbolism, police composition and the nature of the core policing function fulfilled by the PSNI has had on views of policing within working class republican communities. It examines how the Patten programme of police reform has interacted with individual and collective memory to fashion opposing narratives on community policing. The chapter suggests that there are currently two competing master narratives on community policing that prevail within modern Irish republicanism; the ‘Critical Engagement’ narrative proffered by those in favour of policing that uses the memory of past ‘suspect community’ policing by the RUC to frame itself with assertions of newness, change and of the primary policing function now being to provide a policing service to local communities and the ‘cosmetic reform’ narrative espoused by those who continue to reject post-Patten policing in Northern Ireland that uses memory in a more ideologised manner in order to dismiss police reform as an attempt to normalise ‘British’ policing in Ireland.
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Critical Engagement - Understanding a Fraught Historical Relationship
Critical Engagement, 2018Co-Authors: Kevin HeartyAbstract:This chapter provides an historic overview of policing and the rule of law in Northern Ireland and the violent antagonistic relationship Irish republicanism has traditionally had with it. It traces the development of this problematic relationship from the earliest use of the colonial policy of plantation, through to the fostering of ‘divided society’ policing following the partition of the island of Ireland and the creation of a ‘Protestant state for a Protestant people’, eventually culminating in the open armed confrontation between the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and Irish republican armed groups during the most recent phase of conflict in the six counties. Linking the issue of policing to the prevailing political climate, the chapter closes by examining how the issue of policing was addressed in respect of the wider transition then taking place in Northern Ireland. It analyses how Irish republicans adapted their position on and attitude towards policing and the rule of law in tandem with a changing political relationship with the Northern Ireland state following the Good Friday Agreement (GFA).
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Critical Engagement - The PSNI and ‘Political Policing’
Critical Engagement, 2018Co-Authors: Kevin HeartyAbstract:This chapter Critically examines how the historically problematic issue of ‘political policing’ features in opposing policing narratives within modern Irish republicanism. Establishing the overarching contexts of institutional crossover and heightened usage of ‘anti-terror’ legislation within which competing policing narratives are fashioned, the chapter conducts a thematic examination of opposing narratives on political policing. The chapter will establish that those in favour of policing have constructed a narrative of ‘political policing’ that is premised on the notion of rupture that seeks to differentiate the PSNI from the RUC. This narrative disaggregates the policing monolith into ‘good’ policing by the ‘new’ breed of police officer and ‘bad’ policing by the residual ‘securocrat’ element, and emphasises the need to proactively fight the ‘roll back’ of change in order to further the ongoing process of wider equality based transformation of the ‘Orange state’. The anti-policing narrative on ‘political policing’ is conversely premised on the notion of continuity with past political policing of Irish republicans by the RUC. This counter-narrative draws on themes such as the continued abuse of ‘anti-terror’ legislation, the retention of RUC ‘political policing’ methods and the refined targeting of Irish republicans for political policing by the PSNI.
Kristen Lyons - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critical Engagement activist academic subjectivities and organic agri food research in uganda
Local Environment, 2014Co-Authors: Kristen LyonsAbstract:This paper provides a reflexive account of Engagement in activist/academic organic agri-food research in Uganda. I argue that Critical Engagement across the third space – between and across activist and academic subjectivities – enables a re-thinking of the subjectivities of activist/academics and research participants and the place of research in social change and theory building. I demonstrate some of the multiple ways of enacting activism within the academy by reflecting on my Critical Engagement with the Katuulo Organic Pineapple Cooperative in Uganda, whose members grow certified organic pineapples for sale on the international market. While there is a growing interest in Critical activist research, its agenda is also constrained by the corporatist turn in universities. As such, the subjectivities, methods and theory building of activist/academics in agri-food (and other) research represents part of the resistance to normalised ways of doing and being in contemporary neo-liberal universities.
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Critical Engagement, activist/academic subjectivities and organic agri-food research in Uganda
Local Environment, 2012Co-Authors: Kristen LyonsAbstract:This paper provides a reflexive account of Engagement in activist/academic organic agri-food research in Uganda. I argue that Critical Engagement across the third space – between and across activist and academic subjectivities – enables a re-thinking of the subjectivities of activist/academics and research participants and the place of research in social change and theory building. I demonstrate some of the multiple ways of enacting activism within the academy by reflecting on my Critical Engagement with the Katuulo Organic Pineapple Cooperative in Uganda, whose members grow certified organic pineapples for sale on the international market. While there is a growing interest in Critical activist research, its agenda is also constrained by the corporatist turn in universities. As such, the subjectivities, methods and theory building of activist/academics in agri-food (and other) research represents part of the resistance to normalised ways of doing and being in contemporary neo-liberal universities.
Niki Nikonanou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interpreting social issues: Museum theatre’s potential for Critical Engagement
Museum and Society, 2017Co-Authors: Niki Nikonanou, Foteini VenieriAbstract:Museum theatre and its potential within museum education is explored at the Museum Education and Research Laboratory at the University of Thessaly, Greece. There, the leading research project Museums and Education: methods of approaching and interpreting museum objects’aims to address how, over the last few decades, museum theatre has been in ever-increasing use to vocalize the sensitive issues of a multicultural society and marginalized social communities. Recent studies highlight museum theatre evoking empathy and Critical Engagement in the audience with the subject-matter of the performance. One such performance was organized by the School of Drama at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied in depth. Titled Voices of the City: Historical Routes through Theatre, the performance embodied controversial social issues, and its implementation was evaluated using qualitative methodology to examine the responses of visitors.
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interpreting social issues museum theatre s potential for Critical Engagement
museum and society, 2017Co-Authors: Niki Nikonanou, Foteini VenieriAbstract:Museum theatre and its potential within museum education is explored at the Museum Education and Research Laboratory at the University of Thessaly, Greece. There, the leading research project Museums and Education: methods of approaching and interpreting museum objects’aims to address how, over the last few decades, museum theatre has been in ever-increasing use to vocalize the sensitive issues of a multicultural society and marginalized social communities. Recent studies highlight museum theatre evoking empathy and Critical Engagement in the audience with the subject-matter of the performance. One such performance was organized by the School of Drama at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied in depth. Titled Voices of the City: Historical Routes through Theatre, the performance embodied controversial social issues, and its implementation was evaluated using qualitative methodology to examine the responses of visitors.
