{"title":"Editorial (42.2)","authors":"Tom Cornford","doi":"10.1080/14682761.2022.2097368","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>This editorial explores synergies between the articles gathered in this issue, which take a range of approaches to developing ecological analyses of both the creation and reception of performances and theatre history more widely. The editorial concludes with a reflection on the current UK government’s deliberate dereliction of the higher education sector, and its consequnces for the arts and humanities in particular. It calls for a concerted effort to grasp the politics of this developing situation, arguing that this will require two things. First, we must understand the drastic reshaping of the sector and the reduction of arts and humanities provision as a deliberate objective of government. Secondly, we must seek to engage resistance to this project at the ecological level at which those of us who work in the sector are entangled in its delivery, and find ways of creating alternative possibilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":42067,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Theatre and Performance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Theatre and Performance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2022.2097368","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This editorial explores synergies between the articles gathered in this issue, which take a range of approaches to developing ecological analyses of both the creation and reception of performances and theatre history more widely. The editorial concludes with a reflection on the current UK government’s deliberate dereliction of the higher education sector, and its consequnces for the arts and humanities in particular. It calls for a concerted effort to grasp the politics of this developing situation, arguing that this will require two things. First, we must understand the drastic reshaping of the sector and the reduction of arts and humanities provision as a deliberate objective of government. Secondly, we must seek to engage resistance to this project at the ecological level at which those of us who work in the sector are entangled in its delivery, and find ways of creating alternative possibilities.