The Artistic Methods as a Way to Look at the Possibilities of Construction of Gender and its Relations

Autor: Joana P. Cruz, Carla Malafaia, José Eduardo Silva, Isabel Menezes
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, Vol 14, Iss 2 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2237-2660
Popis: The Artistic Methods as a Way to Look at the Possibilities of Construction of Gender and its Relations – Based on a collaborative action-research project with a high school class, we discuss the possibilities that artistic methodologies bring to collective analysis and reflec-tions in order to promote youth political consciousness. Through moments of aesthetic-political exploration, in which the Theatre of the Oppressed and Photovoice were mobilised, the young people reflected on their everyday experiences and problems, with dating violence emerging as the most significant theme. Local actors were added to the joint reflection between the young people, and visual narratives made by two groups were discussed. This article recognises the potential of the arts to problematise gender relations and constructions, to emotionally and subjectively involve par-ticipants, and as a way of politicising an ‘apparent’ individual problem.
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