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Book SynopsisBy using theatre as a sociological lens, The Theatre of Urban not only explores the very notion of performance in a novel and interesting way, it also provides new insights into the conflicts that often erupt in these highly charged school spaces.
Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsPrologue CONTEXT Discourse, Space, and Competing Narratives Space and Subjects: Security, Surveillance, and 'Zero Tolerance' Photo Essay IN THE FIELD An Ethnographic Critique The Situated Character of Ethnography Disenchanted Youth, Falling Test Scores, Rigourous Curriculum and other Prevailing Myths SUBJECTIVITIES The Social and the Artistic Social Dramas: Relations of Power, Gender, and Race Imaginative Trespassing and Ethnographic Artefacts The Gay Other Not among Us: Sexuality and Its Guises Dark Dramas: The Occupied Imagination URBAN OBSESSIONS Pedagogies of Conflict Alternative Literacies and the Sociology of Aesthetics CONSTITUTING CULTURE AND CO-RESEARCH WITH YOUTH A Problem-Posing EthnographyReferencesName IndexSubject Index
