1st Edition

Creating Inclusive Knowledges

Edited By Christopher C. Sonn, Alison M. Baker Copyright 2018
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

There has been a growing interest in the role of arts and cultural practice in tackling perennial forms of social exclusion, marginalization, and oppression. Researchers and educators from different disciplines have been collaborating with community-based agencies and community groups to forge new ways to challenge these forms of exclusion. This volume discusses how various social actors, work in... Read more

1. Creating inclusive knowledges: exploring the transformative potential of arts and cultural practice  2. Exploring links between empowerment and community-based arts and cultural practices: perspectives from Barcelona practitioners  3. Using cotton, needles and threads to break the women’s silence: embroideries as a decolonising framework  4. Community arts as public pedagogy: disruptions into public memory through Aboriginal counter-storytelling  5. A raison d’être for making a reggae opera as a pedagogical tool for psychic emancipation in (post)colonial  6. Building social inclusion through critical arts-based pedagogies in university classroom communities  7. The process and product: crafting community portraits with young people in flexible learning settings  8. Participation in community arts: lessons from the inner-city

Biography

Christopher C. Sonn, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Community Psychology at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia on the land of the Wurundjeri of the Kulan nation. His research examines histories of colonialism and oppression and its continuities in various forms of structural violence and its effects on social identities, intergroup relations and belonging. He is co-editor of Psychology and Liberation and co-author of Social Psychology and Everyday Life.



Alison M. Baker, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Social Pedagogy at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia on the land of the Wurundjeri of the Kulan nation. Her research focuses on the implications of structures that produce inequality in the lives of various disenfranchised groups as well as those in positions of privilege. She is interested in blending creative research methodologies and documentary techniques, particularly visual and sound modalities, to develop young people's sense of social justice and capacity for action.