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Drawing together perspectives from artists, policy-makers and researchers in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. It provides a series of grounded analyses of the artist/donor interface, and valuable reflection on implementation and evaluation strategies.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
Drawing together perspectives from artists, policy-makers and researchers in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. It provides a series of grounded analyses of the artist/donor interface, and valuable reflection on implementation and evaluation strategies.
