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

Being Swedish and being yourself”: Dramatized research communication as democratizing work builds on the research project Staging Migration (VR 2019-02200), 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.

The purpose of the proposed communication 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.