Taiwo Afolabi is Full Professor, Director of Socially Engaged Theatre and holds the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre at the University of Regina, Canada.

• List of FiguresNote on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1 - (Re)Framing Participation1. Self-Positionality2. Conceptual Framework for Participation3. Applied Theatre and ParticipationPart 2 - Case Studies of (Re)Framing4. Challenging ‘Participation’: The Limits of Applied Theatre in Spaces of Deprivation of Liberty — Sergio Costa Junior (Sergio Kauffmann) and Marina Henriques Coutinho (UNIRO – Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)5. When Participation Matters in the Climate Justice Conversation: Reflection on an Applied Theatre Project in the Niger Delta — Stephen Okpadah (University of Warwick, UK)6. Arena y Esteras (Sands and Mats): Communal Living Culture and Good Living — Rodrigo Benza Guerra and Paloma Carpio (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru)7. Re-orientating White-settler Participatory Praxes in Higher Education – Jemma Llewellyn and Steve Donnelly (University of Guelph, Canada)8. Exploration of the Art and Act of Participation Employed in the Devising and Performance of Message Crossing Time — Wan-Jung Wang (National University of Tainan, Taiwan)9. Keeping the Peace? Perspectives from Kenyan Practitioners on Theatre and Peacebuilding Projects’ – Bobby Smith (University of Warwick, UK) and Maxwel Okuto (Amani People's Theatre, Kenya)10. Constructing Sinophone Childhoods: An Exploratory Case Study of Participatory Theatre in Hong Kong— Tam Po-chi (The Education University of Hong Kong)11. Interviewsa. Keamogetsi Joseph Molapong (Namibia)b. Julian Boal (Brazil)12. AfterwordsIndex