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- Explores the roles of film, theatre, literature, music, dance and visual arts in peacebuilding
- Considers the interactions between Peacebuilding and the Arts
- Analyses how the arts can contribute to building peace
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Music
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Front Matter
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Literature
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Front Matter
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About this book
Professor Christine Bell, FBA, Professor of Constitutional Law, Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and co-director of the Global Justice Academy, The University of Edinburgh, UK
"Peacebuilding and the Arts offers an impressive and impressively comprehensive engagement with the role that visual art, music, literature, film and theatre play in building peaceful and just societies. Without idealizing the role of the arts, the authors explore their potential and limits in a wide range of cases, from Korea, Cambodia, Colombia and Northern Ireland to Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa and Israel-Palestine."
Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland, Australia, and author of Aesthetics and World Politics and Visual Global Politics
"Peacebuilding and the Arts is the first publication to focus critically and comprehensively on the relations between the creative arts and peacebuilding, expanding the conventional boundaries of peacebuilding and conflict transformation to include the artist, actor, poet, novelist, dramatist, musician, dancer and film director. The sections on the visual arts, music, literature, film and theatre, include case studies fromvery different cultures, contexts and settings but a central theme is that the creative arts can play a unique and crucial role in the building of peaceful and just societies, with the power to transform relationships, heal wounds, and nurture compassion and empathy. Peacebuilding and the Arts is a vital and unique resource which will stimulate critical discussion and further research, but it will also help to refine and reframe our understanding of peacebuilding. While it will undoubtedly become mandatory reading for students of peacebuilding and the arts, its original approach and dynamic exploratory style should attract a much wider interdisciplinary audience."
Professor Anna King, Professor of Religious Studies and Social Anthropology and Director of Research, Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace (WCRRP), University of Winchester, UK
This volume explores the relationship between peacebuilding and the arts. Through a series of original essays, authors consider some of the ways that different art forms (including film, theatre, music, literature, dance, and other forms of visual art) can contribute to the processes and practices of building peace. This book breaks new ground, by setting out fresh ways of analysing the relationship between peacebuilding and the arts. Divided into five sections on the Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Film and Theatre/Dance, over 20 authors offer conceptual overviews of each art form as well as new case studies from around the globe and critical reflections on how the arts can contribute to peacebuilding. As interest in the topic increases, no other book approaches this complex relationship in the way that Peacebuilding and the Arts does. By bringing together the insights of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of the arts and peacebuilding, this book develops a series of unique, critical perspectives on the interactionof diverse art forms with a range of peacebuilding endeavours.
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Editors and Affiliations
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New College, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Jolyon Mitchell
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Burlington, Canada
Giselle Vincett
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London, UK
Theodora Hawksley
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
Hal Culbertson
About the editors
Giselle Vincett is a sociologist of religion. Her work concentrates primarily on everyday performances of belief and on everyday and spatial experiences of deprivation in the West.
Theodora Hawksley is a Roman Catholic theologian specialising in the area of peacebuilding and Catholic social teaching. She writes regularly on Ignatian spirituality.
Hal Culberston is Associate Dean for Operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. He specializes in NGO management, particularly in the peacebuilding context.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peacebuilding and the Arts
Editors: Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Theodora Hawksley, Hal Culbertson
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17875-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17874-1Published: 28 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17877-2Published: 28 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17875-8Published: 19 November 2019
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 483
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, International Security Studies, Citizenship, Cultural Policy and Politics