Barry Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5119620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hourglasses and Hammers
Finding What’s Real in Research and Theatre
Distinguished Professor Kathleen Gallagher spent years collaborating with Toronto-based playwright Andrew Kushnir on a project exploring the lives of young people in multiple global sites through the lens of drama experiences. In this interview, the co-editors ask Gallagher about the origins and nature of this unique collaboration, as well as about one of its special outcomes: Kushnir’s play Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope, staged at Street…
Staging Strangers
Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia and the productive hazards of digital methods
This article explores the possibilities and frustrations of using digital methods in a multi-sited ethnographic research project. The project, Urban School Performances: The interplay, through live and digital drama, of local-global knowledge about student engagement, is a study of youth and teachers in drama classrooms in contexts of schooling marked as ‘disadvantaged’ in research sites in Toronto (Canada), Lucknow (India), Taipei (Taiwan) and B…
It could have been so much better’
In this paper, the authors consider early results from their ethnographic research in urban drama classrooms by parsing the aesthetic and social imperatives at play in the classroom. Moved by the observation that teachers and students alike seem to be pursuing elusive aesthetic and social ideals, the authors draw on Judith Butler's notion of ‘melancholia’ to explain the feeling of disappointment that sometimes follows difficult drama work – the s…
Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia and the productive hazards of digital methods
This article explores the possibilities and frustrations of using digital methods in a multi-sited ethnographic research project. The project, Urban School Performances: The interplay, through live and digital drama, of local-global knowledge about student engagement, is a study of youth and teachers in drama classrooms in contexts of schooling marked as ‘disadvantaged’ in research sites in Toronto (Canada), Lucknow (India), Taipei (Taiwan) and B…
Staging Strangers
It could have been so much better’
In this paper, the authors consider early results from their ethnographic research in urban drama classrooms by parsing the aesthetic and social imperatives at play in the classroom. Moved by the observation that teachers and students alike seem to be pursuing elusive aesthetic and social ideals, the authors draw on Judith Butler's notion of ‘melancholia’ to explain the feeling of disappointment that sometimes follows difficult drama work – the s…
Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia and the productive hazards of digital methods
This article explores the possibilities and frustrations of using digital methods in a multi-sited ethnographic research project. The project, Urban School Performances: The interplay, through live and digital drama, of local-global knowledge about student engagement, is a study of youth and teachers in drama classrooms in contexts of schooling marked as ‘disadvantaged’ in research sites in Toronto (Canada), Lucknow (India), Taipei (Taiwan) and B…
Staging Strangers
Finding What’s Real in Research and Theatre
Distinguished Professor Kathleen Gallagher spent years collaborating with Toronto-based playwright Andrew Kushnir on a project exploring the lives of young people in multiple global sites through the lens of drama experiences. In this interview, the co-editors ask Gallagher about the origins and nature of this unique collaboration, as well as about one of its special outcomes: Kushnir’s play Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope, staged at Street…
Hourglasses and Hammers
Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Drama (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)