Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Education Philosophy & Social Aspects

Hope in a Collapsing World

Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative

by (author) Kathleen Gallagher

with Andrew Kushnir

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2022
Category
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Curricula, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487541200
    Publish Date
    Apr 2022
    List Price
    $39.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487541224
    Publish Date
    Mar 2022
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487541194
    Publish Date
    Apr 2022
    List Price
    $95.00

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its methodology and create new data with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public.

 

A collaboration between a social scientist and a playwright and using both ethnographic study and playwriting, Hope in a Collapsing World represents a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and original script – titled Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope – for reading, experimentation, and performance.

About the authors

Kathleen Gallagher is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Distinguished Professor in the department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, cross-appointed to the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.

Kathleen Gallagher's profile page

Andrew Kushnir's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, 2023 AATE Distinguished Book Award Awarded by the American Alliance for Theatre & Education