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Joseph Dunne-Howrie

Theatre and Performance Academic

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  • I’m Being Cancelled! Update 1August 9, 2022
  • Research on free speech and live artAugust 4, 2022
  • Gaming Democracy WebinarsApril 6, 2022
  • New book chapter publishedJanuary 4, 2022
  • New article in Journal of Performance Arts and Digital MediaDecember 23, 2021

Tag: Academia

I’m Being Cancelled! Update 1

I’ve spent most of today reading How Woke Won by Joanna Williams. Williams is a core member of the RCP/Spiked! crew that have done a lot to push the war on woke into public consciousness. I’m starting to think my …

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022Categories Blog, PublicationsTags Academia, Archives, free speech, Higher Education, Research, Theatre

Research on free speech and live art

I’m spending the summer researching theories of performativity and theatricality in politics to think about how the ‘war on woke’ is a way of performing an ideology of reactionary liberalism. I want to understand how concepts of ‘free speech’ are …

Posted on August 4, 2022Categories ReflectionsTags Academia, Archives, Decolonising, free speech, Higher Education

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove

We mustn’t be victims, but protagonists of our own story

I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian …

Posted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020Categories BlogTags Academia, Higher Education, racism, Small Axe, Theatre

Alternatives to the Academic Essay

During lockdown I was amazed at the quality of online work the students produced for the performative writing module I teach at Rose Bruford, so much so that I and the programme directors have decided to make a permanent change …

Posted on November 16, 2020November 16, 2020Categories BlogTags Academia, Performative Writing, Teaching

Academic Year 2019-20

After a relatively quiet summer I’m getting ready for another packed academic year.

I got off to an early start by submitting my latest article ‘Trans-Participation: Resisting Brexit through networked thinking in immersive theatre’. It will hopefully be published in …

Posted on September 6, 2019July 27, 2020Categories ReflectionsTags Academia, Research, Teaching
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