1st Edition

Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development

Edited By Polly Stupples, Katerina Teaiwa Copyright 2017
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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

Biography

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.