Project: Deconstructing ‘home’ in crisis - understanding intersecting crises through the lens of ‘home’
| Acronym | Home in Crisis (Reference Number: CHANSE-CR-619) |
| Duration | 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2026 |
| Project Topic | Home in Crisis aims to reveal diverse understandings of home in the context of the climate crisis. It will advance the protection of home for those affected, strengthen academic understanding, and be of concrete value to policy makers, legal practitioners, and the judiciary. Emerging jurisprudential practice suggests that courts are increasingly accepting storytelling, animation, and theatre as evidence in proceedings, at a time when pluralist, Indigenous and non-Western, ways of knowing are recognised as essential for the climate response, in particular within legal systems and governance. Accordingly, Home in Crisis will use artistic creation as a tool of legal analysis and disruption. Whereas the creation and reinforcement of clear structural boundaries defines the legal landscape, working within liminal spaces is the very essence of the arts. Home in Crisis will use theatre grounded in transgressive eco-arts pedagogy to interrogate legal systems and bring forth novel perspectives on the law in the context of ‘home’ and the climate crisis. Participant narratives will be drawn from testimonies of lived experience and will be the source of the play. The performance itself will generate new conversations and exchanges. Post-performance dialogues with the audience offer an additional layer of reflexive data. In its analysis of law, Home in Crisis will move beyond traditional textual analysis alone, to examine how law interacts with the notions of home through formal legal systems and Indigenous and African customary legal systems. It will incorporate Global South and non-Western epistemologies and legal practices drawing on critical, feminist and decolonial legal methodology including third world approaches to law. This creative arts + law approach allows for a deep interrogation of law’s potential inadequacies and apertures in governing, creating, and destroying home in the context of the climate crisis. |
| Network | CHANSE |
| Call | Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities |