Author(s): Silva, José Eduardo ; Cruz, Joana ; Malafaia, Carla ; Menezes, Isabel
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/91379
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Theatre; photovoice; gender; collaborative research; Photovoice; Violência no Namoro; Investigação baseadas nas Artes; Investigação Colaborativa; Género; Photovoice; Violence Conjugales; Recherche Base sur les Arts; Recherche Collaborative; Genre
Based on a collaborative action-research project with a high school class, we discuss the possibilities that artistic methodologies bring to collective analysis and reflections 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 participants, and as a way of politicising an ‘apparent’ individual problem.
