Writing

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Articles (peer reviewed and otherwise)

Cunningham, M., and Hammond, M., (2025) Arts based approaches to democracy: Reinvigorating the public sphere. Politics. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02633957251324529

Cunningham, M., (2021 – 2023) Collecting Real Utopias – Artsadmin. Blog Series. Available at: https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/collecting-real-utopias-introductions/

Cunningham, M., (2023) How the arts can save democracy. The Lead. Available at: https://thelead.uk/how-arts-can-save-democracy

Babbage, F., Cunningham, M., Hannay, Z., & Houlders, J., (2021) “We’re all part of the same collective, we just haven’t figured that out yet”: Dramaturgies of Participation in the People’s Palace of Possibility. Critical Stages/Scènes Critques, Issue 23. https://www.critical-stages.org/23/were-all-part-of-the-same-collective-we-just-havent-quite-figured-that-out-yet-dramaturgies-of-participation-in-the-peoples-palace-of-possibility/

Cunningham, M. & Lechelt, E. (2020) The Politics of Participation in Cultural Policy Making. Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 7:2.

Flinders M, Wood M & Cunningham M. (2016) The politics of co-production: risks, limits and pollution.Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 12(2), 261-279

Cunningham, M., (accepted pending revisions) Hannah Arendt’s Table: On nostalgia, democracy, and potlucks. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Book Chapter

Cunningham, M., Rubin, K., & Woods, S., (2024) ‘People aren’t going to show up to the revolution if it isn’t fun’: Theatre of the Oppressed and disrupting the tone of voice within deliberative democracy’ in Applied Theatre: Voice, ed Weston, S., Bloomsbury.

Book Review
Cunningham, M. (2020) Utopia in the Anthropocene: a change plan for a sustainable and equitable world, Environmental Politics, 29:3, 558-559.

PhD

Cunningham, M. (2020) Participatory theatre as democratic space: opportunities and limitations. University of Leeds. Available at: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/28154/