Storying the Self : Performance and Communities. This item is unavailable.Storying the Self : Performance and Communities

The chapters in this collection explore the constellation of points where stories of individual experience and experiences are in dialogue with political, cultural and social narratives.

Encompassing themes of individual and social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, motherhood, academic lives and what it means to be an arts practitioner, these stories and accounts continue and expand the ongoing conversations of how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, complex, personal and often deal with experiences that have been challenging for the author in some way.

Contributions from Ross Adamson, Suzy Bamblett, Emily Bell, Jenni Cresswell, Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze, Sandra Lyndon, Vanessa Marr, Jess Moriarty, Éva Mikuska, Holly Stewart, Deirdre Russell, Louise Spiers, Lucianna Whittle.

This is the first book in a new series. The Performance and Communities Book Series celebrates, challenges and researches performance in the real world. The series will consider how contemporary performance can engage, build and learn from previous, existing, evolving and new communities of people – practitioners, academics, students, audiences.

Ross Adamson is senior lecturer at the University of Brighton. He is currently completing a doctorate in education at Bournemouth University on the ethics and educational practices of documentary filmmaking for undergraduate students. His research writing incorporates narrative hermeneutics, writing inquiry, documentary filmmaking, ethics and digital storytelling.

Dr Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton where she is a course leader on the creative writing MA and the English literature and creative writing BA. Her work is on autoethnography, communities of practice and developing confidence with creative work and academic life.