@article{ref1,
title="A raison d'être for making a reggae opera as a pedagogical tool for psychic emancipation in (post)colonial Jamaica",
journal="International journal of inclusive education",
year="2016",
author="Bell, Deanne M.",
volume="20",
number="3",
pages="278-291",
abstract="Critical participatory action research is a form of community engagement and knowledge generation which, when represented semiotically, may promote social transformation. In this paper, I describe a critical participatory action research project I undertook as a liberation psychologist and researcher in (post)colonial Jamaica. I summarise a narrative psychological portrait of downpressing produced by analysing participant's relationship to state violence using a voice-centred method of analysis. Denied racism and classism are found to dominate the way in which downpressors relate to others they inferiorise. I discuss the raison d'être for animating the psychology of the downpressor in a performance piece, a reggae opera. Such a piece of community art could be a pedagogical tool for psychic emancipation. Finally, I describe challenges and potentials encountered in an effort to forge an aesthetic synthesis among multiple pieces of conscious art.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1360-3116",
doi="10.1080/13603116.2015.1047657",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2015.1047657"
}