Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice

Expression, Identity and Empowerment

Ann Holt editor Cindy Maguire editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st Mar '22

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This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development.

The book argues that arts and culture are fundamental to human development and can bring considerable positive results for helping to empower communities and provide new ways of looking at social transformation. Whilst most literature addresses culture in abstract terms, this book focuses on practice-based, collective, community-focused, sustainability-minded, and capacity-building examples of arts and development. The book draws on case studies from around the world, investigating the different ways practitioners are imagining or defining the role of arts and culture in Belize, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kosovo, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, the USA, and Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria. The book highlights the importance of situated practice, asking what questions or concerns practitioners have and inviting a dialogic sharing of resources and possibilities across different contexts.

Seeking to highlight practices and conversations outside normative frameworks of understanding, this book will be a breath of fresh air to practitioners, policy makers, students, and researchers from across the fields of global development, social work, art therapy, and visual and performing arts education.

"A timely book containing an outstanding collection of essays on the debate around global practice-based arts and culture; an essential collection of thought-provoking accounts rooted in practice and community engagement. If you are interested in the different ways arts professionals are rethinking the role of arts and culture practice, this is one for your bookshelf."

Glen Coutts, Professor, Applied Arts Education, University of Lapland, Finland, President, International Society For Education through Art

"Despite pleas to " give voice to the voiceless", many voices remain unheard. This is not just because no one is listening, but because their expression may not take verbal form, but may emerge through, or be facilitated by, art. This comprehensive book gives this recognition central place, and it's fascinating essays show the truly transformative power of the arts when applied to shaping genuinely humane and holistic development."

John Clammer, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities

"A showcase of compelling stories about transformation, empowerment, community building, and creative placemaking… Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment is a must-read for those who want to increase their knowledge about community development, global arts, and creative praxis in various social, cultural, and political contexts."

Wanda B. Knight, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art Education, African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University, United States., President-elect, National Art Education Association

ISBN: 9780367708382

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

236 pages