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.
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
Drawing together perspectives from artists, policy-makers and researchers in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. It provides a series of grounded analyses of the artist/donor interface, and valuable reflection on implementation and evaluation strategies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Klappentext
Drawing together perspectives from artists, policy-makers and researchers in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. It provides a series of grounded analyses of the artist/donor interface, and valuable reflection on implementation and evaluation strategies.
