Lindsay Meghan Eales
Making Mad Home and Other Love Stories: Mad Performative Autoethnography, Collaborative Research-Creation, and Mad-Accessible Trauma-Informed Practice by Lindsay Meghan Eales A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation University of Alberta © Lindsay Meghan Eales, 2018 Abstract This is a love story about Mad research-creation, and about what we can learn when we draw together Mad theory with Mad performance and Mad-accessible, anti-oppressive, trauma- informed practice. This research-creation project gives weight to social and political conceptualizations of, as well as deeply embodied and sensorial engagements with, both ‘mental illness’ and trauma. Informed by my work as a Mad artist, performer and inclusive creative movement practitioner who works in the field of adapted physical activity, this project also centers artistic creation, performance, and practice-based suggestions for inclusive and adapted movement programming. In the first chapter of this dissertation, I introduce Mad studies and Mad theory, offer some exemplars of Mad performances that inform this project, and discuss how mental illness and trauma is currently being taken up in the field of Adapted Physical Activity. In chapter two, I explicate research-creation as this project’s overarching methodology, and articulate this research-creation dissertation as a series of nesting dolls: three smaller inter- related research-creation projects that nest together and speak
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