Research Projects in India
Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice
Principal Investigator:
Kathleen Gallagher (OISE, University of Toronto)
Sponsor:
Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Summary:
This project explores whether the experiences of ‘learning-in-relation' and deep listening that emerge in collective theatre-making in the drama classroom can also help participants understand the interrelationships among the environment, society, and culture at a time of ecological and socio-political polarization.
Locations of research:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Athens, Greece
Coventry, West-Midlands, England;
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Low Wage in High Tech: An Ethnography of Service Workers in Global India
Principal Investigator:
Kiran Mirchandani (OISE, University of Toronto)
Co-Investigators:
Sanjukta Mukherjee (DePaul University, Chicago)
Shruti Tambe (Savitribai Phule Pune University, India)
Sponsor:
Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Summary:
The project focuses on the impact of the growth of multinational technology firms on low-wage service workers. It provides a unique look at the lives, livelihoods and training of housekeepers, drivers, and security guards who work in these firms. Despite working for wealthy global corporations that are distinctively associated with progress and promise, service employees often work extremely long hours, at low wages, with no health or pension benefits, and few prospects for social or economic mobility. The project highlights these workers' stories of immobility and exclusion, giving them a long-overdue voice and representation in the research on India's technology boom.
Location of research:
Pune, India
Youth, Theatre, Radical Hope and the Ethical Imaginary: an intercultural investigation of drama pedagogy, performance and civic engagement
Principal Investigator:
Kathleen Gallagher (OISE, University of Toronto)
Collaborator:
Project: Humanity
International Partners:
StudyHall Educational Foundation; University of Warwick, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Youth Services; National University of Tainan; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Drama/Theatre Education Network.
Sponsor:
Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Summary:
Using a socially engaged and collaborative model of research, the project asks what makes the theatre workshop/classroom a forum of civic engagement in the present as well as an experience that may cultivate civic engagement later in life. Collaborating across universities, schools, theatres and youth community spaces in Toronto (Canada), Lucknow (India), Tainan (Taiwan), Coventry (England) and Athens (Greece), we examine how youth theatre making can cultivate practices, relationships, contrariness, dispositions and values that orient young people towards, and support them in, engaged and full citizenship.
Locations of research:
Tainan, Taiwan; Lucknow, India; Coventry, England; Athens Greece; Toronto, Canada