Participatory Arts in International Development

This book explores the practical delivery of participatory arts projects for international development.

"This important and timely book brings together arts practitioners, academics and senior research and policy figures from NGOs with first-hand experience of the power of the arts to disrupt and refashion neoliberal development paradigms. They analyse projects that put a premium upon indigenous knowledge derived from grassroots participation as an antidote to the colonial models, releasing forces of self-development in order that different futures may be imagined where equality and social justice are not sacrificed to short-term profits. While the book is a significant resource for makers of development policy, it also reminds us of Arnold Wesker's dictum: 'Not to be a poet is the worst of our miseries'." *Tim Prentki, Emeritus Professor of Theatre for Development, University of Winchester, UK

• Autorentext

Paul Cooke is Centenary Chair of World Cinemas at the University of Leeds, UK. He is currently the Principal Investigator on Changing the Story, a project looking at the ways in which heritage and arts organisations can help young people to shape civil society in post-conflict countries.

Inés Soria-Donlan is Project Manager of Changing the Story at the University of Leeds. Since 2008 Inés has worked internationally across the academic, cultural and creative sectors as a producer, project manager, creative practitioner and researcher, with a continual focus on youth, diversity and arts-led participation.

Klappentext

This book explores the practical delivery of participatory arts projects in international development. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, international development professionals and arts practitioners, the book engages honestly with the competing challenges faced by the different groups of people involved. Participatory arts are becoming increasingly popular in international development circles, fuelled in part by the increased accessibility of audio-visual media in the digital age, and also by the move towards participatory discourses in the wake of the UN's Agenda 2030. The book asks: What do participatory arts projects look like in practice, and why are they used as an international development tool? How can we develop practical and sustainable development projects on the ground, localising best practice according to cultural, economic and linguistic contexts? What are the enablers of, and barriers to, successful participatory initiatives, and how can we evaluate past projects to learn and feed into future projects? Written to appeal to both academics and practitioners, this book would also be suitable for teaching on courses related to participatory development, community arts, and culture and development.

Inhalt

Introduction: 'Post-Participatory' Arts for the 'Post-Development' Era' **Part I: Organisational Perspectives 1. Imagining Power: Development, Participation and Creativity 2. Reflections on Practice: Integrating Creative Arts into INGOs to Promote Participation, Activism and Alternative Development Futures 3. Beyond the Development Imaginary: Alternative Policy in Brazil and Colombia 4. Challenging the Message of the Medium: Scaling Participatory Arts Projects and the Creativity Agenda in Kenya **Part II: The Role of the Researcher in Development 5. When Elvis Dances: Activating Community Knowledge through Participatory Creative Practices in Santiago, Chile 6. Fragments on Heroes, Artists and Interventions: Challenging Gender Ideology and Provoking Active Citizenship through the Arts in Kosovo 7. Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Youth and Participatory Arts in Rwanda 8. Arts, Education and Reconciliation in Cambodia: Sociological Perspectives 9. Historical Research as an Advocacy Tool in India 10. Developing Dialogue through Participatory Design and Imaginative Graphic-Ethnography **Part III: Exploring the Art Produced in Development 11. Filming the Margins: Documentary Film, Participation and the Poetics of Resistance in Contemporary Brazil 12. Taking the Product Seriously: Questions of Voice, Politics and Aesthetics in Participatory Video 13. Researching like an Artist: Disrupting Participatory Arts-Based Methods in Uganda and Bangladesh