The Art of Peace Formation: Arts-based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages

Explores the relationship between the arts, political agency and peace formationTakes an innovative theoretical approach: engages with artistic interventions into peace formation processes Introduces nuanced and critical understandings of the role of the arts in conflict beyond the current focus on...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024]
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Summary:Explores the relationship between the arts, political agency and peace formationTakes an innovative theoretical approach: engages with artistic interventions into peace formation processes Introduces nuanced and critical understandings of the role of the arts in conflict beyond the current focus on arts as a peacebuilding tool for NGOs Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America Artpeace represents a conceptual framing of the synergy between the arts and peacemaking, as well as a methodological strategy for addressing war and political conflict through the arts. Developing the concept of artpeace , this book investigates how local art projects in seven locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America have played a role in broader national peace projects.These essays bring together peace and conflict scholarship and arts-based studies of social movements in conflict-affected societies to examine the how the arts could offer an opportunity to shape peace processes in emancipatory ways. And it examines the blockages that, at times, prevent them from making a tangible difference to the variations of peace being designed
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (264 Seiten) 14 black and white illustrations, 3 black and white tables
ISBN:9781399519557
DOI:10.1515/9781399519557

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