Empowerment and Advocacy from a Perspective of"Structure and Action":Practical Changes in Applied Drama for Grassroots Women on the Move
As a tool for social work practice,applied drama has dual functions of empowerment and advocacy.However,the functional differences of different applied drama forms and the relationship between empowerment and advocacy have not received enough attention.This study adopts the perspective of"structure-action"to take the experience of M social work Agency in Beijing in the past decade of introducing and applying drama methods to serve grassroots migrant women as an example.It focuses on the practical strategies and re-sults of M social work agency's transformation from community theater to game theater.Different applied dramas have their inherent em-powerment-advocacy relationship structure,while M organization,as a grassroots organization,is also constrained by the material structure conditions.Under the influence of these internal and external structural conditions,in the community theater carried out by M organiza-tion,there is a tension between empowerment and advocacy goals,which cannot be balanced,partially resulting in the unachievement of the goal of direct empowerment.The pursuit of theatrical stage effect has helped community theater produce better advocacy and variabil-ity,but there are insufficient coverage and continuity.When community theater turns into game theater,direct empowerment is trans-formed into indirect empowerment,and the tension between empowerment and advocacy is dissolved,but the benefits of direct empower-ment cannot be obtained.However,game theater maintains good advocacy variability,and shows advantages in advocacy coverage and persistence.These findings highlight the importance of structural insight and strategic choice in the introduction of applied drama.
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