Problems & Provocatons around Performance, P-a-R & the PhD

John Freeman

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This paper is intended as a provocation; and it asks questions of the ways in which knowledge and understanding are articulated through P-a-R in and through performance. The article argues that P-a-R’s creeping status as more of a mantra than a methodology necessitates the asking of some questions. The article's overtly UK perspective is tempered by a positons at two Australian universities; residencies undertaken in the US, Asia and mainland Europe; collaborations with academics in a dozen countries and PhD examination in three countries. Whilst the focus of the article remains predominantly British and Australian the issues addressed are not entirely local; whilst not quite an autoethnography, the article draws on its writer’s examination of numerous P-a-R students. It is from this platform that the article questions some of the assumptions around P-a-R, not least the idea that creative practice can readily serve as its own articulation within formal research contexts.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-23
Number of pages23
JournalAntropologia e Teatro
Volume9
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sep 2018

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Freeman, John. / Problems & Provocatons around Performance, P-a-R & the PhD. In: Antropologia e Teatro. 2018 ; Vol. 9. pp. 1-23.
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Problems & Provocatons around Performance, P-a-R & the PhD. / Freeman, John.

In: Antropologia e Teatro, Vol. 9, 19.09.2018, p. 1-23.

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