Arts-based Research in Global Development

Vicki-Ann Ware lectures in development studies at Deakin University, Australia. An ethnomusicologist who is widely published with 30 years’ experience in arts-based community work, she researches arts-based community development/peacebuilding. Having worked in mainland Southeast Asia, she currently works in Bangladesh and Indonesia. She convenes the Arts/Sports Community Development Network, and is Artistic Director for Casey Philharmonic Orchestra. Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta holds a Ph.D. in Applied Theatre from The University of Manchester, UK. She is Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. Currently, she is working on her SSHRC grants on Coast Salish language revitalisation through theatre. Sadeghi-Yekta has published many articles in a variety of journals. Tim Prentki is Professor Emeritus of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester, UK. He is co-editor of The Applied Theatre Reader and The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance. Wasim al Kurdi is a poet, writer, and practitioner in the fields of drama and theatre in education. He served as the Director of the Educational Programme at Palestine's A.M. Qattan Foundation and as the Academic Director of DiE Summer School in Jordan. He is an author of books on education, culture, and the arts.

Section 1: Introduction and Theoretical Framework 1: Artful Development: Arts as Research Method? Section 2: Case Studies in Arts-Based Knowledge Creation in Global Development Theme 1. Supporting Positive Social Change through Arts-based Processes 2. Harmony Reimagined: Music as a Source of Development Knowledge 3. Island Connect: Video and Art Collectives to Support Inter-cultural Dialogue, Learning and Connection in Sri Lanka 4. Exploring Together: Communal Arts-based Knowledge Creation and its Contribution to Peacebuilding and Poverty Reduction 5. ‘I realised I needed to change’: When Development Workers Explore Communal Conflict Through Arts-based Research 6. Shared Discourses: Post-Communist Participatory Art in East-Central Europe Theme 2: Local Arts-based Knowledge as Development Vehicle 7. Our Ocean is Sacred, You can’t Mine Heaven 8. Healing-ish Healing: Languages Heroes on an Indigenous Theatre Festival 9. Third Space Arts-based Youth Development Work – Navigating the Space Between 10. Toi Taiao Whakatairanga: Shifting Awareness of Forest Health Through Artistic Research 11. Rain Later, Good, Occasionally Poor: Rhetorical Listening in the Time of Climate Change 12. Jathilan Reborn, social transformation through Javanese Traditional Arts 13. From Tragedy to Tradition: Partition Narratives in Haryanvi Folk Songs Section 3: Conclusions 14. The Art of Knowing