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- Contributes to key debates in peace studies by exploring how the arts contribute to local and everyday practices of building peace
- Offers an in-depth discussion of three long-standing theatre groups from South Asia. It examines how they engage with issues of peace and conflict in their respective conflict contexts
- Drawing on different approaches to theatre and conflict, the book illuminates how theatre works for peacebuilding. This is of particular use to practitioners interested in art-based approaches to peacebuilding
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualising Theatre for Peacebuilding
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Front Matter
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Exploring Theatre in Local Peacebuilding Processes
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- theatre
- peacebuilding
- South Asia
- statebuilding
- societybuilding
- culture
- sustainable approaches to peace
- multivocal and dialogical voice of theatre
- mobile theatre
- Sri Lanka
- Jana Karaliva
- conflict narratives
- forum theatre
- India
- Jana Sanskriti
- structural violence
- alternative theatre
- Nepal
- Sarwanam
- citizen perspectives
Authors and Affiliations
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Zurich, Switzerland
Nilanjana Premaratna
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theatre for Peacebuilding
Book Subtitle: The Role of Arts in Conflict Transformation in South Asia
Authors: Nilanjana Premaratna
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75720-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75719-3Published: 25 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09309-9Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75720-9Published: 05 May 2018
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Asian Politics, Theatre and Performance Studies