Visual artists, craftspeople, musicians, and performers have been supported by the development community for at least twenty years, yet there has been little grounded and critical research into the practices and politics of that support. This new Routledge book remedies that omission and brings together varied perspectives from artists, policy-makers, and researchers working in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, and Europe to explore the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. The book offers a series of grounded analyses which cover: strategies for the sustainability of arts enterprises; innovative evaluation methods; theoretical engagements with questions of art, agency, and social change; artists’ entanglements with legal and structural frameworks; processes of cultural mapping; and the artist/donor interface.
The creative economy is increasingly recognized as a driver of development and this book also investigates the contribution made by the arts to the processes of international development, and considers how those processes can best be supported by development agencies. Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development gives scholars of Development Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Cultural Policy, Cultural Studies, and Global Studies a contextually and thematically diverse range of insights into this emerging research field.
Edited by:
Polly Stupples,
Katerina Teaiwa
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9780367193041
ISBN 10: 0367193043
Series: Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 07 June 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
,
A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part 1: Structuring the Cultural Sector for Development 1. The Creative Economy and the Development Agenda: The Use and Abuse of ‘Fast Policy’ 2. UNESCO, Cultural Industries and the International Development Agenda: Between Modest Recognition and Reluctance 3. Structuring the Culture Sector in the Pacific Islands 4. Artists as Change Agents: Structural and Policy Implications Part 2: The Interface of Art, Agency and Activism 5. Breaking the Frame: The Agency of Art’s Liminal Relationship to Development 6. System Error: Art as a Space to Produce What We Would Never Have Thought We Needed 7. Imagining Development Through Dance in Fiji 8. Anatomy of a Durational Project: Lanchonete.org, 2013–2017 Part 3: The Practical Dynamics of Art and Development 9. Using Art to Fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda 10. The Creative Interweaving of Multiple Threads: A Pragmatic Approach to Supporting the Arts in the Context of International Aid and Volunteering 11. Morris & Co. as a Strategy for Contemporary South African Craft Enterprises 12. Collaborative South African Fieldwork Community Arts Development Program 13. freeDimensional: Artists’ Safety and Creative Safe Havens Part 4. The Question of Evaluation 14. Evaluation Practices in Participatory Arts in International Development: Findings of a Systematic Literature Review 15. The What and the How: Rethinking Evaluation Practice for the Arts and Development
Polly Stupples is a Lecturer in Geography and Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Katerina Teaiwa is Associate Professor in interdisciplinary Pacific Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Environment, in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.
