Democracy as Creative Practice

Weaving a Culture of Civic Life
Herausgeber: Borrup, Tom; Zitcer, Andrew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world and features chapter authors who are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Community Development Research and Practice Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781032758725
• ISBN-10: 1032758724
• Artikelnr.: 70151071

Autorenporträt

Tom Borrup is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies for the Arts and Cultural Leadership and Civic Engagement Programs at the University of Minnesota and a community and cultural planning consultant. Andrew Zitcer is an associate professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he directs the Urban Strategy graduate program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Unraveling of Democracy and Reweaving Civic Life Part
One: Place-Based Actions Introduction to Place-Based Actions: Following the
Thread of Place-Based Actions 1. Repurposing Agricultural Infrastructure to
Build Cultures of Democracy in Rural Communities: A Case Study from
North-West Victoria 2. Lake Street Arts! - Creative Democracy in Practice
3. How "Creative Recovery" Stimulates a Culture of Democracy: Case Studies
of Post-Disaster Creativity in Rural Australia 4. Democracy as
Demonstration: A Lifelong, Dreamed of, Home Part Two: Aesthetic Strategies
Introduction to Aesthetic Strategies: Remaking Worlds and Ourselves:
Aesthetic Strategies for a Culture of Democracy 5. Co-Creating Democracy:
Aesthetics in Action 6. Braiding Comedy in Precarious Times: The
Possibilities and Pitfalls of Research Creation in the Settler Colonial
University 7. Mediating Provisional Communities: The Production and
Management of Collaborative Arts Projects Part Three: Learning Environments
Introduction to Learning Environments: Learning and Practice - Democracty
in Action 8. Reflections on Doing Visual Politics: Photography,
Collaboration, and Creative Practice as Civil Action 9. All the Relatives:
Animating Stories of Democratic Participation Through Speaking Out 10. The
Ray of Hope Project and Women Composers Festival: Reframing Narratives 11.
The Power of Storytelling: Practicing a Culture of Democracy With Young
Students Part Four: Civic Processes Introduction to Civic Processes: Get
With It: A Play of Civic Processes 12. Democracy Is in the Making: Just
Act's Model for Rehumanizing Community Engagement 13. Creating Our Next LA:
Art Animating Powerful Congregation-Based Campaigns for Justice 14. Warm
Cookies of the Revolution: A Case Study of Democratic Culture Through the
Framework of Civic Health 15. Civic Artists Reimagining Democracy 16. "The
Most Optimistic Way I Have of Envisioning Our Collective Future" Editors'
Summary and Conclusion