Culturally producing and negotiating women’s rugby league histories through applied performance

Conroy, Colette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-7930 and Dickenson, Sarah (2020) Culturally producing and negotiating women’s rugby league histories through applied performance. In: Prenki, Tim and Abraham, Nicola, (eds.) The applied theatre reader, second edition. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 63-68. Full text not available from this repository.

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Abstract

Areas of Rugby League’s popularity map closely onto areas where, in 2016, populations voted in favour of the UK leaving the EU. The working-class communities of the North of England have been represented in the media in injurious terms during the UK recession and the Brexit debates, and there has emerged in the press a narrative of communities that have been left behind by neoliberal economic development. As part of this resistance to nostalgia, histories of Rugby League and their communities are important and significant to British politics, moving us from the generalised and injurious to the specific and nuanced. The process of talking about Rugby League for its own sake opens up the differential levels of access given to male and female participants and is the occasion for the articulation of intricate dynamics of engagement, resistance and recognition.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780429355363
Departments:	Institute of Arts > Performing Arts
Depositing User:	Colette Conroy
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2021 12:20
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2024 11:15
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6122