Christine Balt
Biographic Data
| ID | 6555652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Balt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Balt |
| SIGNATURE | BALT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9817-1515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Walking and writing as praxes of belonging
This article explores walking and writing as praxes of belonging for young people living in Toronto during the COVID pandemic. Approaching belonging as a process instead of a static condition, the article examines the generative possibilities of walking and writing as methods to at once explore – and produce – belonging in the city amid young people’s experiences of gentrification and migration. Autotopography [Heddon, Deirdre. 2007. “One Square …
Reconfiguring togetherness in the virtual drama classroom
This article engages with the emotional flows of an online, ethnographic doctoral research project taking place in three Toronto drama classrooms during Ontario’s longest COVID lockdown. Using conceptualisations of togetherness in drama education, and feminist theories of emotion in virtual and public life, the article reflects on how community in such spaces was sought, lost and reconfigured. ‘Affective reflexivity’ (Chung 2020) is adopted as a …
Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments
In this article, we examine the fraught task of doing drama-based work on the climate crisis with youth in schools at a time of increasing climate fatalism. We focus on what a virtual, speculative fiction writing and performance workshop achieved with students in Coventry, Kaohsiung and Bogotá by inviting them to rewrite the futures of local environments. We harness the concepts of agency, memory, desire, repair and care as part of a deeply situa…
Vulnerability, care and hope in audience research
This article considers the theatre as a vital site for the formation of an ‘intergenerational polis’ through its examination of the verbatim play, Towards Youth: A play on radical hope, by Andrew Kushnir. Performed in Toronto from February to March, 2019, at Crow’s Theatre, Towards Youth attracted a uniquely intergenerational audience. Our audience research on this production, consisting of post-performance interviews, conducted in the lobby of C…
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research
This article explores the possibilities in harnessing drama-based research methodologies in examining youth's 'right to the city' during the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency [Lefebvre (1996). Writings on Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers]. Using 'auto-topography' [Heddon (2007). "One Square Foot: Thousands of Routes." PAJ 29 (2): 40–50. doi:10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40] as a drama-based methodological prompt, the research consid…
Arts-led, youth-driven methodology and social impact
This paper considers the social role of collaborative ethnographic research amid our current intersecting social, political and ecological crises. It investigates how the multi-sited, arts-based, ethnographic study, Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice (2019–2024), adopts drama as a tool to at once respond compassionately and imaginatively to crisis, and envision alternative social, pol…
Building new publics
This article considers research as inquiry and social intervention through the lens of building theatre audiences. Detailing a research and creative collaboration with a Toronto-based theatre company, and their verbatim play Towards Youth: a play on radical hope created from the data of a global ethnographic research project, we extend Schechner's (1988, 2003. Performance Theory. London: Routledge.) notion of gathering and dispersing to illustrat…
Response to Covid-19 – losing and finding one another in drama
This article engages with the sudden pivot to online learning and research in a Toronto high school drama classroom during the COVID pandemic, revealing a complex portrait of youth, connection, and the digital world at a time of physical distancing. In light of these shifting 'personal geographies', we reflect on what drama practices might be mobilised to invite intimacy into online learning
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research
This article explores the possibilities in harnessing drama-based research methodologies in examining youth's 'right to the city' during the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency [Lefebvre (1996). Writings on Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers]. Using 'auto-topography' [Heddon (2007). "One Square Foot: Thousands of Routes." PAJ 29 (2): 40–50. doi:10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40] as a drama-based methodological prompt, the research consid…
Arts-led, youth-driven methodology and social impact
This paper considers the social role of collaborative ethnographic research amid our current intersecting social, political and ecological crises. It investigates how the multi-sited, arts-based, ethnographic study, Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice (2019–2024), adopts drama as a tool to at once respond compassionately and imaginatively to crisis, and envision alternative social, pol…
Response to Covid-19 – losing and finding one another in drama
This article engages with the sudden pivot to online learning and research in a Toronto high school drama classroom during the COVID pandemic, revealing a complex portrait of youth, connection, and the digital world at a time of physical distancing. In light of these shifting 'personal geographies', we reflect on what drama practices might be mobilised to invite intimacy into online learning
Building new publics
This article considers research as inquiry and social intervention through the lens of building theatre audiences. Detailing a research and creative collaboration with a Toronto-based theatre company, and their verbatim play Towards Youth: a play on radical hope created from the data of a global ethnographic research project, we extend Schechner's (1988, 2003. Performance Theory. London: Routledge.) notion of gathering and dispersing to illustrat…
Arts-led, youth-driven methodology and social impact
This paper considers the social role of collaborative ethnographic research amid our current intersecting social, political and ecological crises. It investigates how the multi-sited, arts-based, ethnographic study, Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice (2019–2024), adopts drama as a tool to at once respond compassionately and imaginatively to crisis, and envision alternative social, pol…
Vulnerability, care and hope in audience research
This article considers the theatre as a vital site for the formation of an ‘intergenerational polis’ through its examination of the verbatim play, Towards Youth: A play on radical hope, by Andrew Kushnir. Performed in Toronto from February to March, 2019, at Crow’s Theatre, Towards Youth attracted a uniquely intergenerational audience. Our audience research on this production, consisting of post-performance interviews, conducted in the lobby of C…
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research
This article explores the possibilities in harnessing drama-based research methodologies in examining youth's 'right to the city' during the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency [Lefebvre (1996). Writings on Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers]. Using 'auto-topography' [Heddon (2007). "One Square Foot: Thousands of Routes." PAJ 29 (2): 40–50. doi:10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40] as a drama-based methodological prompt, the research consid…
Reconfiguring togetherness in the virtual drama classroom
This article engages with the emotional flows of an online, ethnographic doctoral research project taking place in three Toronto drama classrooms during Ontario’s longest COVID lockdown. Using conceptualisations of togetherness in drama education, and feminist theories of emotion in virtual and public life, the article reflects on how community in such spaces was sought, lost and reconfigured. ‘Affective reflexivity’ (Chung 2020) is adopted as a …
Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments
In this article, we examine the fraught task of doing drama-based work on the climate crisis with youth in schools at a time of increasing climate fatalism. We focus on what a virtual, speculative fiction writing and performance workshop achieved with students in Coventry, Kaohsiung and Bogotá by inviting them to rewrite the futures of local environments. We harness the concepts of agency, memory, desire, repair and care as part of a deeply situa…
Walking and writing as praxes of belonging
This article explores walking and writing as praxes of belonging for young people living in Toronto during the COVID pandemic. Approaching belonging as a process instead of a static condition, the article examines the generative possibilities of walking and writing as methods to at once explore – and produce – belonging in the city amid young people’s experiences of gentrification and migration. Autotopography [Heddon, Deirdre. 2007. “One Square …
Participatory Visual Research Methods (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works) · Drama (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)