Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development
Visual artists, craftspeople, musicians and performers have been supported by the development community for at least twenty years, yet there has been little grounded and critical research into the practices and politics of that support. This new Routledge book remedies that omission and brings together varied perspectives from artists, policy-makers and researchers working in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe to explore the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. The book offers a series of grounded analyses which covers: strategies for the sustainability of arts enterprises; innovative evaluation methods; theoretical engagements with questions of art, agency and social change; artists entanglements with legal and structural frameworks; processes of cultural mapping; and the artist/donor interface.
The creative economy is increasingly recognised as a potential driver of development, and this book investigates the varied contributions that the arts and the creative economy can make to development processes, and how development agencies might best support such initiatives. Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development gives scholars of development studies, social and cultural geography, anthropology, cultural policy, cultural studies and global studies a contextually and thematically diverse range of insights into this emerging research field.
Polly Stupples is a Lecturer in Geography and Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Katerina Teaiwa is an Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Pacific Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Environment in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.
Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
Paul Basu, Wayne Modest and Tim Winter, Series Editors
There is a burgeoning interest among academics, practitioners and policy-makers in the relationships between culture and development. This embraces the now well-recognized need to adopt culturally sensitive approaches in development practice, the necessity of understanding the cultural dimensions of development and more specifically, the role of culture for development. Culture, in all its dimensions, is a fundamental component of sustainable development, and throughout the world, we are seeing an increasing number of governmental and non-governmental agencies turning to culture as a vehicle for economic growth, for promoting social cohesion, stability and human well-being and for tackling environmental issues. At the same time, there has been remarkably little critical debate around this relationship and even less concerned with the interventions of cultural institutions or creative industries in development agendas. The objective of the Routledge Studies in Culture and Development series is to fill this lacuna and provide a forum for reaching across academic, practitioner and policy-maker audiences.
The series editors welcome submissions for single and jointly authored books and edited collections concerning issues such as the contribution of museums, heritage and cultural tourism to sustainable development; the politics of cultural diplomacy; cultural pluralism and human rights; traditional systems of environmental management; cultural industries and traditional livelihoods; and culturally appropriate forms of conflict resolution and post-conflict recovery.
1 Museums, Heritage and International Development
Edited by Paul Basu and Wayne Modest
2 Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development
Edited by Polly Stupples and Katerina Teaiwa
3 Global Heritage Assemblages
Development and Modern Architecture in Africa
Christopher Rausch
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Names: Stupples, Polly, editor. | Teaiwa, Katerina Martina, editor.
Title: Contemporary perspectives in art and international
development / edited by Polly Stupples and Katerina Teaiwa.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge
studies in culture and development | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016012579 | ISBN 9781138024700
(hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Art patronageEconomic aspectsDeveloping
countries. | Artists and patronsDeveloping countries. | Art and
societyDeveloping countries. | Art patronageInternational
cooperation. | International agenciesEvaluation.
Classification: LCC N5208.D44 C66 2016 | DDC 701/.03dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016012579
ISBN: 978-1-138-02470-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-75255-6 (ebk)
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Contents
POLLY STUPPLES AND KATERINA TEAIWA
CHRISTIAAN DE BEUKELAER AND JUSTIN OCONNOR
ANTONIOS VLASSIS
KATERINA TEAIWA AND ELISE HUFFER
DANIEL GAD
POLLY STUPPLES
IOLANDA PENSA
MEGAN ALLARDICE
TODD LANIER LESTER
LILIAN M. NABULIME AND CHERYL McEWAN
VANESSA EDEN
INGRID STEVENS AND ALLAN MUNRO
JANINE LEWIS AND THABISO QWABE
SIDD JOAG AND TODD LANIER LESTER, WITH DESIGNS BY RUBEN MERCADO
KIM DUNPHY AND VICKI-ANN WARE
CLAUDIA FONTES
This book has its roots in a collaboration between a doctoral candidate (Polly Stupples) and one of her doctoral examiners (Katerina Teaiwa) who share a passion for research that explores creative practice as social action, although those explorations have taken them to different parts of the world: Central America and the Pacific. We are both cognisant of the way in which this field crosses disciplinary, geographic and applied/theoretical domains, and this book is a gesture towards expanding that cross-disciplinary engagementabout what art is and does, and where and how it does itin productive ways.
As researchers, we have both been inspired and supported by different communities of colleagues, friends and family. Polly would like to acknowledge two inspiring figures who passed away too soon: Professor David Craven, for opening the door, and Virginia Prez-Ratton, for pulling together so many threads. She would also like to thank Patricia Belli for her personal and intellectual generosity, and Katerina for her enthusiasm in joining her in this project and her tenacity in seeing it through. Finally, many thanks to her whanau for support in so many ways, and to her daughter Clara, for putting up with the inevitable demands of the book on her mothers time and energy.
