Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

En skådespelare som alla andra: levda erfarenheter av rasifiering och desorientering i vita teaterrum

Forsheden Sidoli, Elinor LU (2014) GNVK01 20141
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to highlight how gender and racialisation shapes lived experiences within the Swedish theatre context. The study is based on interviews with four non-white actors working or studying in Sweden. To interpret the material from the interviews I use narrative analysis and draw on Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology and its concept of orientation. I use a phenomenological perpective on gender and race, along with theories of racialisation and representation when analysing the material. My study shows that the informants experience the theatre as a white space, which disorientates their non-white bodies. Racialisation and disorientation happens when the white bodies that inhabit the theatre space denies non-white... (More)
The aim of this thesis is to highlight how gender and racialisation shapes lived experiences within the Swedish theatre context. The study is based on interviews with four non-white actors working or studying in Sweden. To interpret the material from the interviews I use narrative analysis and draw on Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology and its concept of orientation. I use a phenomenological perpective on gender and race, along with theories of racialisation and representation when analysing the material. My study shows that the informants experience the theatre as a white space, which disorientates their non-white bodies. Racialisation and disorientation happens when the white bodies that inhabit the theatre space denies non-white experiences and make them invisible. The production of stereotypical representations of non-white bodies on the theatre stage works as a process of othering, which creates further disorientation. In order to change the theatre space non-white bodies has to arrive to and inhabit them and thus enable orientation for themselves and non-white bodies arriving after them. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Forsheden Sidoli, Elinor LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVK01 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
teater, representation, kön, rasifiering, fenomenologi
language
Swedish
id
4466365
date added to LUP
2014-06-19 13:55:22
date last changed
2014-06-19 13:55:22
@misc{4466365,
  abstract     = {{The aim of this thesis is to highlight how gender and racialisation shapes lived experiences within the Swedish theatre context. The study is based on interviews with four non-white actors working or studying in Sweden. To interpret the material from the interviews I use narrative analysis and draw on Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology and its concept of orientation. I use a phenomenological perpective on gender and race, along with theories of racialisation and representation when analysing the material. My study shows that the informants experience the theatre as a white space, which disorientates their non-white bodies. Racialisation and disorientation happens when the white bodies that inhabit the theatre space denies non-white experiences and make them invisible. The production of stereotypical representations of non-white bodies on the theatre stage works as a process of othering, which creates further disorientation. In order to change the theatre space non-white bodies has to arrive to and inhabit them and thus enable orientation for themselves and non-white bodies arriving after them.}},
  author       = {{Forsheden Sidoli, Elinor}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{En skådespelare som alla andra: levda erfarenheter av rasifiering och desorientering i vita teaterrum}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}