Performing Sustainability in West Africa: Cultural Practices and Policies for Sustainable Development

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This book discusses the role of cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines, including performance, video, theatre, community arts and cultural heritage. Based on ethnographic field research in local communities, the book presents findings on current debates of cultural sustainability in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Benin. It provides a unique perspective connecting cultural studies, conflict studies and practical peacebuilding approaches through the arts. The first part pays particular attention to aspects of social cohesion and the circumstances of internally displaced persons e. g. caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria. The second part focuses on cultural policy issues and challenges in the context of sustainable development, investigating participatory approaches and bottom-up processes, the role of governments and civil society, as well as performing arts organizations and universities in policy making and implementation processes. Performing Sustainability in West Africa presents research results and new methods on the role of artistic and cultural practices in conflict situations as well as current debates in cultural policy for researchers, academics, NGOs and students in cultural studies, sustainable development studies and African studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Chapter 1 Cultural Practices and Policies for Sustainable Development: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Researching Culture in Conflict Situations in West Africa Part 1 Cultural Practices and Sustainable Development Chapter 2 Performing Healing, Sustaining Culture: Experiences of Managing Collective Trauma amongst Displaced Persons in the Daudu Community, Nigeria Chapter 3 Visual Representations as a Tool for Peace Education and Peace Promotion towards Sustainable Development: A Case of Dalori Camp, Maiduguri Borno State, Nigeria Chapter 4 Community Participation and Cultural Sustainability in Nkwen and Bamendankwe, Cameroon: A ‘Video for Development’ Approach Chapter 5 Gender Equity and Sustainable Development: A ‘Film for Development’ Approach among the Kom of North West Cameroon Chapter 6 Designing with Waste: A New Paradigm for Set Design in Theatre Productions in Ghana Chapter 7 Effects of Displacement on Kanuri Cultural Practices of Internally Displaced Persons of Borno State, Nigeria Part 2 Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development Chapter 8 Cultural Policy Evaluation towards a Sustainable Arts and Cultural Sector in Ghana Chapter 9 Connecting Knowledge and Practice for Sustainable Development: A Case of School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana Chapter 10 Inputs towards a Coherent Cultural Policy in Benin Based on an Analysis of Historical Developments Chapter 11 Repatriation and Recirculation: A Case for a Sustainable Practice in Administering Nigerian Antiquities Index