Post-Conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development

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This book investigates the power of art to enhance human development and to initiate positive social change for individuals and societies recovering from conflict. Interventions aimed at reinforcing social justice and bringing communities together after conflict are often accused of being top-down, or failing to consider all groups and contexts within a society. The use of participatory arts can help to address these challenges by fostering community engagement, social cohesion, influencing public policy, and ultimately, advancing social justice. Arts-based methods can be particularly effective at reaching youth communities, providing voice and political agency to young people who are often not given a platform. Situated at the intersection of participatory arts, social and epistemic justice, this book brings together case studies from across the world to reflect on best practice for the use of bottom-up, participatory, co-produced, and co-designed arts processes in conflict settings. This book provides an important guide to the role that arts can play in addressing epistemic injustice and contributing to social justice and human development. As such, it will be of interest to international development and arts practitioners, policy makers, and to students and researchers across participatory arts, youth studies, international development, social justice, and peace and conflict studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors 1 Introduction: Participatory arts in building socially just societies in the Global South 2 Participatory arts for social and epistemic justice PART I: Participatory process of arts for epistemic justice 3 ‘Seeing power’, co-creation and intersectionality in film-making by Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba 4 Participatory curatorship: Negotiating heritage, memory, and justice in Northern Uganda 5 Political storytelling on Twitter: can it address epistemic injustice against women? 6 Re-connecting with cultural heritage: How participatory video enabled youth in Palestine to protect their cultural heritage 7 Capturing epistemic responsibility and resistance: Challenging intercommunal conflict through photovoice PART II: Community engagement through participatory arts 8 Collaboration in research: Insights from a participatory art project in Zimbabwe 9 YouthLEAD: Measuring the indirect impact of youth peacebuilding through PhotoVoice and community murals in Colombia 10 Youth, police, and civil society organization: Participatory arts-based clinics for strengthening security and justice in Nepal 11 Creation and communication: Reflecting on the role of arts methods to enable dialogue between young people and policy makers in Kenya, Uganda, and the DRC 12 ‘Lebanon, The Youth Roll’: Experiencing conflict as a transcultural, transnational film language 13 Conclusion: Where to next? The potentials and liminality of participatory arts in conflict Index