Arts, Culture and Community Development

Rosie R. Meade is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at the University College Cork, Ireland.Mae Shaw is Honorary Fellow in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Culture and Community Development – Introductory Essay ~ Rosie R. Meade and Mae ShawSection 1: Making and Sharing Collective Meanings Reflections on the Decolonizing Dance Praxis of Grupo Bayano ~ Antonia Darder and Sharon CroninThe Power of Song ~ Leon RosselsonThe People Awoke Awake - Observations from Beirut's Walls in the October 17 Moment ~ Arek Dakessian, Célia Hassani and Sarah ShmaitillyMuralism, Disputes, and Imaginaries of Community Resistance: Case-studies from Settlements in Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro ~ Alexis Cortés, Palloma Menezes and Apoena ManoContemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: Consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development? ~ Daniel H. MutibwaQueering Community Development in DIY punk spaces ~ Kirsty Lohman and Ruth PearceSection 2: Negotiating Practice and Policy Access to Communication as Resistance and Struggle in the 21st Century ~ Pradip Ninan ThomasUnholy Alliance or Way of the Future? The intertwinements of community development, cultural planning and cultural industries in municipal and regional cultural strategies in Finland ~ Miikka PyykkönenFrameworks for Assessing and Reconsidering Empowerment in Community Arts ~ Samson Kei Shun WongMaintaining a critical approach to collaborative art and youth work practice in neoliberal times ~ Fiona Whelan and Jim LawlorThe Kinaesthetics of Community: social circus, corporeal aesthetics and the balancing act of a development practice in (post)neoliberal conditions ~ Jennifer Beth SpiegelBuilding peaceful communities: Collaboration and co-creation through theatre ~ Nilanjana PremaratnaAfterword

"This is a very important book that can help us to be more transgressive against our present conditions. In my opinion, too many books about the arts and culture focus solely on the individual act of creation, so this volume is an exception as it emphasises collectivity." Concept