Andrew Martinez – författare

How Latine students rely on relationships with peers, mentors, families, and communities to succeed in college and graduate schoolContrary to conventional narratives, successful transitions from college to graduate school to a university professorship emerge not from isolated instances of knowledge, skill, determination, and grit but from networks of mutual support, shared vulnerability, and communal resilience. In Community, We Can draws on the stories of nearly one hundred undergraduates to explore how Latine students depend on relationships with peers, mentors, families, and communities to navigate college and prepare for graduate school. The authors provide evidence-based data and analysis to show that a focus on individual effort ignores not only how inequities shape opportunity but also how much students lean on one another. It also places the burden of success entirely on the individual rather than asking institutions to share responsibility for students’ academic futures.In Community, We Can shows that shared resources, mutual accountability, and collaborative problem-solving, as practiced by these students, can transform higher education, benefiting academia as a whole rather than just exceptional individuals.

How are theatre and performance makers seeking to address social inequalities and support political change through socially engaged work?Presenting a sweeping view of performance practice, innovation, and reformation from around the world, this anthology demonstrates how the arts and theatre makers are urgently reshaping the way we must now represent, facilitate, and protest.Featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners who are making activist interventions in the social justice crises of the world, this collection showcases the many ways in which artists are engaging with communities to bring about change: from prison theatre in Brazil, to digital theatre experiments in Calcutta during the COVID-19 lockdown, from using theatre to tackle ageism and shame, to a participatory theatre project with LGBTIQ+ Zimbabwean youth. Featuring applied theatre work that addresses specific and localized community issues, as well as chapters theorizing how broader strategies could be employed in a variety of contexts, the handbook shows how performance and social action is both a philosophy and a call to action. Together these perspectives demonstrate how through work in theatres, communities, and classrooms we may continue what Augusto Boal advised us to do—to rehearse for the futures we would like to inhabit.