Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:
- Part I Planning
- Chapter 1 Methods Dialogue:
- Chapter 2 Planning a Research Project:
- Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary Acts:
- Chapter 4 Mixing Methods in a Multi-Sited, Collaborative Project:
- Chapter 5 Methods Dialogue:
- Part II Doing
- Part III Interpreting
- Index
- References
Chapter 3 - Interdisciplinary Acts:
Learning about Theatre from the Social Sciences
from Part I - Planning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:
- Part I Planning
- Chapter 1 Methods Dialogue:
- Chapter 2 Planning a Research Project:
- Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary Acts:
- Chapter 4 Mixing Methods in a Multi-Sited, Collaborative Project:
- Chapter 5 Methods Dialogue:
- Part II Doing
- Part III Interpreting
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, Michael McKinnie explores how methods drawn from the social sciences can help theatre scholars formulate different, and more systematic, ways to think about theatre and its place in the world. Social scientists make ‘moves’ with their material that theatre scholars are unlikely to make with theirs. When transposed to analysis of theatre, these moves suggest different, sometimes counter-intuitive, approaches. ‘Tricks’, an idea taken from sociologist Howard S. Becker, are formal procedures that help draw out theatre’s relationality at subsequent stages of the research process. Thinking about theatre’s place in the world poses a wide variety of problems that TaPS is not always equipped to tackle. Theatre scholars need to make different moves, and formulate new tricks, to begin to address them.
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