Performing Recovery

Addiction, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Representation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-367-69686-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Reihe: Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance

Performing Recovery explores how theater and performance can reimagine addiction recovery as a creative and collaborative cultural practice.

The book draws on 20 years of research and collaboration to investigate how people in recovery use artistic expression to challenge stigma and build new forms of belonging. Through case studies such as the Addiction Recovery Arts Network, Fallen Angels Dance Theatre, Portraits of Recovery, small performance adventures, the Pink Flamingos Project, and WilL Dickie’s White Sun, it reframes vulnerability as a source of creativity and connection. Combining theoretical frameworks with practical insights, the book demonstrates how socially engaged performance makes recovery visible, valued, and understood in new ways.

This book is ideal for artists, researchers, healthcare professionals, and students in performance studies, applied arts, social work, and addiction recovery programs, it will also appeal to anyone interested in creative expression, community arts, and social justice.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zontou, Zoe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

About Author

Introduction

Chapter 1: Vulnerable States: On Cultures of Addiction and the Ethics of Representation

Chapter 2: Vulnerable Becomings: Micro Practices of Worldbuilding

Chapter 3: Fallen Angels Dance Theatre: Vulnerability as a Creative Method

Chapter 4: Pink Flamingos: Vulnerability, Maternal Action and Recovery

Chapter 5: White Sun: Vulnerability, Whiteness, and Addiction

Chapter 6: Performing Addiction Recovery Futures: On Vulnerability and Futurability

Conclusion

Appendix A

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zoe Zontou is Associate Professor of Drama at Liverpool Hope University, where she specializes in socially engaged performance and the role of the arts in addiction recovery.