Participatory arts in international development / edited by Paul Cooke and Ines Soria-Donlan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 'Post-participatory' arts for the 'post-development' era' / Paul Cooke and Ines Soria-Donlan -- Imagining power : development, participation and creativity / Martin Keat -- Reflections on practice : integrating creative arts into INGOs to promote participation, activism and alternative development futures / Kate Newman and Kate Carroll -- Beyond the development imaginary : alternative policy in Brazil and Colombia / Simon T. Dancey and Emily Morrison -- Challenging the message of the medium : scaling participatory arts projects and the creativity agenda in Kenya / Paul Cooke, Simon Peter Otieno and Jane Plastow -- When Elvis dances : activating community knowledge through participatory creative practices in Santiago, Chile / Simon Popple -- Fragments on heroes, artists and interventions : challenging gender ideology and provoking active citizenship through the arts in Kosovo / Linda Gusia, Nita Luci, Lura Pollozhani and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers -- Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) : youth and participatory arts in Rwanda / Ananda Breed -- Arts, education and reconciliation in Cambodia : sociological perspectives / Peter Manning and Sayana Ser -- Historical research as an advocacy tool in India / William Gould and Dakxin Bajrange -- Developing dialogue through participatory design and imaginative graphic-ethnography / Paul Wilson -- Filming the margins : documentary film, participation and the poetics of resistance in contemporary Brazil / Stephanie Dennison and Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho -- Taking the product seriously : questions of voice, politics and aesthetics in participatory video / Paul Cooke, Sinethemba Makanya, Ines Soria-Donlan and Daniela Wegrostek -- Researching like an artist : disrupting participatory arts-based methods in Uganda and Bangladesh / Emilie Flower and Ruth Kelly.

"This book explores the practical delivery of participatory arts projects for international development. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, international development professionals and arts practitioners, the book engages honestly with the competing challenges faced by the different groups of people involved. Participatory arts are becoming increasingly popular in international development circles, fuelled in part by the increased accessibility of audio-visual media in the digital age, and also by the move towards participatory discourses in the wake of the UN's Agenda 2030. The book asks: - What do participatory community arts projects look like in practice, and why are they used as an international development tool? - How can we develop practical and sustainable development projects on the ground, localising best practice according to cultural, economic and linguistic contexts? - What are the enablers of, and barriers to, successful participatory initiatives, and how can we evaluate past projects to learn, and feed into future projects? Written to appeal both to academics and practitioners, this book would also be suitable for teaching on courses related to participatory development, community arts, and culture and development"-- Provided by publisher.