"This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways in which arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice. Since the 1970s, global development has witnessed an increase in the use of participatory approaches to enable the world's most excluded peoples to be actively involved in the planning and implementation of development projects that impact them. A range of participatory practices are now in common use, many of which use visual activities which enable fuller participation irrespective of literacy levels or social position. More recently, development practitioners with arts skills, along with a small number of professionally-trained artists, have started engaging in a wider range of arts-based practices within this participatory development space, aimed at co-creating new knowledge with these communities. This book explores how the performing and visual arts provide spaces for the world's most marginalised communities to articulate their development aspirations and co-create knowledge that contributes to development outcomes. It also highlights how arts-based research puts the power over development decisions back into the handsof 'recipient' communities. The book will be of interest to development practitioners and artists working with marginalised communities globally, policymakers in arts and global development, graduate students, and academics. The rich case studies providemany fresh ideas for arts and/or development practitioners wanting to utilise arts-based research, particularly with performing arts, in global development programming"--
This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways in which arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice.
Since the 1970s, global development has witnessed an increase in the use of participatory approaches to enable the worlds most excluded peoples to be actively involved in the planning and implementation of development projects that impact them. A range of participatory practices are now in common use, many of which use visual activities which enable fuller participation irrespective of literacy levels or social position. More recently, development practitioners with arts skills, along with a small number of professionally trained artists, have started engaging in a wider range of arts-based practices within this participatory development space, aimed at co-creating new knowledge with these communities. This book explores how the performing and visual arts provide spaces for the worlds most marginalised communities to articulate their development aspirations and co-create knowledge that contributes to development outcomes. It also highlights how arts-based research puts the power over development decisions back into the hands of recipient communities.
The book will be of interest to development practitioners and artists working with marginalised communities globally, policymakers in arts and global development, graduate students, and academics. The rich case studies provide many fresh ideas for arts and/or development practitioners wanting to utilise arts-based research, particularly with performing arts, in global development programming.
This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice. The book provides many fresh ideas for practitioners wanting to utilise arts-based research in development programming.
Section 1: Introduction and Theoretical Framework 1: Artful
Development: Arts as Research Method? Section 2: Case Studies in Arts-Based
Knowledge Creation in Global Development Theme
1. Supporting Positive Social
Change through Arts-based Processes
2. Harmony Reimagined: Music as a Source
of Development Knowledge
3. Island Connect: Video and Art Collectives to
Support Inter-cultural Dialogue, Learning and Connection in Sri Lanka
4.
Exploring Together: Communal Arts-based Knowledge Creation and its
Contribution to Peacebuilding and Poverty Reduction
5. I realised I needed
to change: When Development Workers Explore Communal Conflict Through
Arts-based Research
6. Shared Discourses: Post-Communist Participatory Art in
East-Central Europe Theme 2: Local Arts-based Knowledge as Development
Vehicle
7. Our Ocean is Sacred, You cant Mine Heaven
8. Healing-ish Healing:
Languages Heroes on an Indigenous Theatre Festival
9. Third Space Arts-based
Youth Development Work: Navigating the Space Between
10. Toi Taiao
Whakatairanga: Shifting Awareness of Forest Health Through Artistic Research
11. Rain Later, Good, Occasionally Poor: Rhetorical Listening in the Time of
Climate Change
12. Jathilan Reborn, social transformation through Javanese
Traditional Arts
13. From Tragedy to Tradition: Partition Narratives in
Haryanvi Folk Songs Section 3: Conclusions
14. The Art of Knowing
Vicki-Ann Ware lectures in development studies at Deakin University, Australia. An ethnomusicologist who is widely published with 30 years experience in arts-based community work, she researches arts-based community development/peacebuilding. Having worked in mainland Southeast Asia, she currently works in Bangladesh and Indonesia. She convenes the Arts/Sports Community Development Network, and is Artistic Director for Casey Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta holds a PhD in Applied Theatre from The University of Manchester, UK. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. Currently, she is working on her SSHRC grants on Coast Salish language revitalisation through theatre. Sadeghi-Yekta has published many articles in a variety of journals.
Tim Prentki is Professor Emeritus of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester, UK. He is co-editor of The Applied Theatre Reader and The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance.
Wasim al Kurdi is a poet, writer, and practitioner in the fields of drama and theatre in education. He served as the Director of the Educational Programme at Palestine's A.M. Qattan Foundation and as the Academic Director of DiE Summer School in Jordan. He is an author of books on education, culture, and the arts.
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