Re-embodying jurisprudence: using theatre and multimedia arts-based methods to support critical thinking, feeling and transformation in law

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dc.contributor.authorDhaliwal, Manpreet (Preeti) Kaur
dc.contributor.supervisorCalder, Gillian
dc.contributor.supervisorPrendergast, Monica
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-01T14:39:47Z
dc.date.available2017-05-01T14:39:47Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-05-01
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Law
dc.degree.levelMaster of Laws LL.Men_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis offers theoretical and practical explorations of how multimedia arts-based methods and embodied storytelling support critical and transformative understandings of law. Using theatre as both subject and method, the author demonstrates how laws live in bodies, with a focus on race, whiteness, migration and the Komagata Maru. Drawing on various theatre practices as well as critical race, feminist and performance scholarship, the author calls for a new way of interacting with law: jurisprudential theatre. Jurisprudential theatre is a method that employs autobiography, utopian visioning, legal research and audience involvement to create plays that examine existing law while filling affective spaces that existing law neglects. This method builds an alternate archive that supplements existing laws but can also be used to study them. The author explains the method through a performance art piece titled Re-embodying. She then uses jurisprudential theatre to examine the legal history of the Komagata Maru through case law and two play texts, all of which lay the groundwork for the method’s application in the first draft of a play titled Eustitia. “Rather than laying my life and research out in a chronological, linear fashion with smooth transitions, this thesis blends scholarly, autobiographical, episodic and creative writing – sometimes abrupt, sometimes guided. This framework takes you on a journey to the Komagata Maru through my experiences and understandings of race, whiteness, law and trauma. This thesis asks you to bear witness while offering you life stories, performance art, the draft of a play, images and academic prose. I invite you to join me in a creative and performative process that will move you beyond the confines of the page to online worlds and internal realms. Why? To study and experience (as best we can in a text-based relationship) the internal and embodied consequences of law alongside its external, material and relational impacts.”en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0465en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0398en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0631en_US
dc.description.proquestemaildhaliwal.preeti@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8025
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectCritical Race Theoryen_US
dc.subjectStorytellingen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectTheatreen_US
dc.subjectTraumaen_US
dc.subjectWhitenessen_US
dc.subjectKomagata Maruen_US
dc.subjectMV Sun Seaen_US
dc.subjectErasureen_US
dc.subjectPerformance Studiesen_US
dc.subjectPerformance Arten_US
dc.subjectWitnessen_US
dc.subjectAutobiographyen_US
dc.subjectLawen_US
dc.subjectLegal Historyen_US
dc.subjectWhite Supremacyen_US
dc.subjectCritical raceen_US
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_US
dc.subjectCritical legalen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectimmigration lawen_US
dc.subjectApplied theatreen_US
dc.subjectperformanceen_US
dc.subjectrepertoireen_US
dc.subjectjurisprudenceen_US
dc.subjectlegal imaginationen_US
dc.subjectDecolonizationen_US
dc.titleRe-embodying jurisprudence: using theatre and multimedia arts-based methods to support critical thinking, feeling and transformation in lawen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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