Performances against settler colonialism? Christine Balt, Kathleen Gallagher, Nancy Cardwell, Celeste Kirsh, ‘Attending to Settler-Colonial and Indigenous Histories “Being in common” and acknowledging land through site-specific performance’, in Kathleen Gallagher, Christine Bal (eds), Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way, Routledge, 2024 | settler colonial studies blog

Performances against settler colonialism? Christine Balt, Kathleen Gallagher, Nancy Cardwell, Celeste Kirsh, ‘Attending to Settler-Colonial and Indigenous Histories “Being in common” and acknowledging land through site-specific performance’, in Kathleen Gallagher, Christine Bal (eds), Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way, Routledge, 2024

28Nov24

Abstract: This chapter explores the notion of ‘being in common’ in the drama classroom after quarantine, (re)finding collectivity through drama pedagogies, and reckoning with socio-ecological justice in local sites of learning. Using moving through place, writing-in-role, and found pedagogies as frameworks for learning, the chapter examines how collective explorations of local public places can instigate critical conversations about how socio-ecological injustices are reproduced across time, as well as space. Looking closely at the connections between Canada’s history of settler colonialism, past and ungoing violence against Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ Peoples, and ecological destruction, the chapter sees performance offering students the opportunity to become ‘wayfinders’ and meaning-makers in coming to construct their knowledge of the world, collectively, through encounters with place and history.

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