Stockholm university

Research project "Being Swedish and being yourself”: Dramatized research communication as democratizing work

This project builds on the research project Staging Migration, which creates new knowledge on the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden. The results point to the ways that theater creates meeting places for psychosocial identification, social analysis, and critical reflection that contribute to civil repair.

Image from the theater play "Tre Streck"
Image from the theater play "Tre Streck". Photo: Maryam Barani (Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Vällingby/Husby)

The purpose of the project is to enable access to target groups for genuine dialogue and real change. The project will make cultural sociological analysis widely available, and disseminate findings on the ways that the lived experience of exclusion, inbetweenness, privilege, solidarity, and hope for change can awaken in the stage- audience encounter.

Research results will be made available to young people in minority groups in million- program home areas: groups that research often talks about but seldom with. The recognition gap that marginalized young people experience must be bridged. By sharing young people's experiences, needs, and ideas for an alternative society with professional groups outside the academic world, this project will enable and promote de-stigmatization processes. "Being Swedish and being yourself” is a collaborative project with researchers, artists, communication officers, and a theater producer and will create two audio dramas, one podcast, ten seminars and a popular science e-publication.

Project members

Project managers

Anna Lund

Professor of Sociology, Deputy Head of Department

Department of Sociology
Bild av Anna Lund Foto:Erik Edwardsson Richter

Members

Rebecka Brinch

Studierektor i teatervetenskap

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Rebecca Brinch

Ylva Lorentzon

Universitetslektor

Department of Child and Youth Studies
Ylva Lorentzon. Foto: Niklas Björling.