Feeling working class: affective class identification and its implications for overcoming inequality

Beswick, K. (2020) Feeling working class: affective class identification and its implications for overcoming inequality. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40(3), pp. 265-274. (doi: 10.1080/14682761.2020.1807194)

Abstract

This article is a provocation, discussing the ways class measurement is complicated in efforts to understand participation and barriers to access for working class people. I explore class as a structure of feeling, emerging as a not-yet-worked through aspect of the theatre experience. I ask what would need to happen in theatre institutions if we took seriously people’s self identification, rather than relying primarily on external measures, and suggest ways that doing so might offer strategies for overcoming inequality.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: UNSPECIFIED
• Authors: Beswick, K.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies
• Journal Name: Studies in Theatre and Performance
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1468-2761
• ISSN (Online): 2040-0616
• Published Online: 07 January 2021
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2020 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Studies in Theatre and Performance 40(3): 265-274
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
301220		Incubate/Propagate: Networked Ecologies of New Performance-Making	Elizabeth Tomlin	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	AH/R012962/1	Arts - Theatre studies