Rashida Resario

Rashida Resario is a Poet, Researcher, and Senior Lecturer at the Theatre Arts Department in the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and MPhil degrees in Drama and Theatre Studies from the University of Ghana, and a PhD from University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her PhD research focused on the interaction of cultures in performance, by examining the micro and macro intercultural performance practices of the Ghana Dance Ensemble. Her research interest is in the political economy of culture with a focus on creative industries and creative labour. She is also interested in arts-based research, ethics of representation in the interaction of cultures through performance, and gender in creative work. She uses both traditional qualitative methods and arts-based methods such as devised theatre and artistic workshop design in her research. She has organized and led artistic research workshops with Ghanaian artists to explore their lived experiences and aspirations through artistic means. Her research: “Fat Shaming and/or Claiming in Contemporary Ghana,” which examined the agency of female participants in a dance reality show, was funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She was co-applicant on the Danish International Development Agency funded project: “Advancing Creative Industries for Development in Ghana.” Her work has been published as book chapters and in journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies; Media, Culture & Society; Cultural Trends;Journal of Performing Arts; Information, Communication & Society; Journal of Contemporary African Studies; and Geoforum.

Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues has taken a bold step to wrestle with the problematic legacy of colonization and aims to process and challenge its impact on the world. I deem it an honour and a huge responsibility to serve on the Ethics Advisory Group, bearing in mind ethical dilemmas that may arise in a transnational, multi-partner project seeking to build a shared understanding of the colonial past, through creative and dialogic processes.

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