Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies

Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent activist, embodied and collective natures. It works across multiple spheres to help readers understand how to deploy affective approaches rather than to simply think with affect theory about traditional methods.

The book is structured and curated across three main thematic sections: affective movements, methods and pedagogies, each of which treats the core explorations of affect and performance through a different perspective. It is concerned with the ways performance and theatrical methods work with and through a theoretics of affect. The sixteen chapters include work that models theoretical practices in writing, and demonstrates how theorising affect and its methods is itself a performative practice. The contributors offer rich examples from diverse geopolitical as well as disciplinary contexts, innovative methods, and finally, intersectional theoretics.

This collection will be of interest to higher education students exploring methodologies, and academic researchers and teachers in the fields of performance studies, communication, critical studies, sociology and the arts.

Preface Introduction: Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies; Section 1: Affective Movements 1. Affective Leanings in Performance 2. Drop in the Ocean: On Walking with Water as Affective Activism 3. Vogue Femas Affective Anti-Oppression Education 4. Accelerating a Blaze of Very Tender Violence: Ten Experiments in Writing with Performance and Activism 5. Sinking Feelings and Hopeful Horizons: Holding Complexity in Climate Change Theatre; Section 2: Affective Methods 6. Affect and Audiencing Rimini Protokoll’s Win > < Win 7. Devising Creativity in Hong Kong: An Affective Performance Methodology 8. Poetic Becomings in Scenic Art for Young Children 9. ‘Come All Savage Creatures’: Becoming Bakkhai in Western Australia 10. The Six Viewpoints and the Art of Waiting (to Become Art) 11. Sitting with It: Liveness and Embodiment; Section 3: Affective Pedagogies 12. Performatively Un-Silencing Australian History: A First Nations History Curriculum 13. Affect and Discovery: Transformative Moments of Confrontation in Performative Pedagogies 14. ‘They Call Teachers by their First Names!’: An Ethnodrama of Pre-Service Teachers 15. Etudes and Empathy: Towards a Pedagogy of Empathy 16. The Dramaturgy of Spaces in the Post Laboratory

Anne Harris is Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Anne writes and researches in the areas of critical autoethnography, education, gender, creativity and creative methods.

Stacy Holman Jones is Professor and Director of the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses broadly on performance as socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity.