This important book highlights the vital role of cultural rights and gender equality in sustainable peace, drawing on decolonising and restorative paradigms to create cultures of peace using the arts. It offers original conceptualisations and theorisations of methods used to sustain cultures of peace in contexts of extreme violence and precarity in the Global South.

Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa

I wholeheartedly endorse this important collection. It provides compelling testimonials from women in patriarchal communities around the world who have suffered under gender-based violence against women, but who have found a way through creative arts to gain voice and visibility and fight for sustainable peace. It deserves to be read, shared and discussed!

Hans Ladegaard, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

This book unpacks the complex nature of 'peace' through a decolonial lens by shifting power, voice, and agency in knowledge production to the Global South. The contextual stories demonstrate how diverse cultures of the Global South apply their own experiences of language, music, dance, poetry, and drama to create and sustain peace.

Mary Setrana, University of Ghana

This book shifts the focus of peacebuilding away from nation-states and international organisations to make a powerful argument that sustainable peacebuilding is the work of ordinary people. It brings together work done in Gaza, Ghana, Mexico, Morocco and Zimbabwe, alongside work with refugees in Scotland, to argue for a place for successful intercultural relations as a central aim of peacebuilding, moving beyond the more usual focus on economic development. With a particular emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women in peacebuilding, together with a central role for arts and culture as a means of resistance and social change, the chapters represent the fruit of collaborative work across geographical and cultural borders, between artists, activists and academics, bringing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on situations of violence and precarity. In a world where peace work can feel increasingly futile, this book makes a powerful case for the crucial role of local action and cultural work and play in the creation of a better future.   The book will be open access under a CC BY ND licence.
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With an emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women and cultural work in peacebuilding, the chapters in this book represent the fruit of collaborative work across borders, between artists, activists and academics, bringing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on situations of violence and precarity.
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Figures and Tables Contributors Acknowledgements I Am You Un-Foreword Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé: Introduction Part 1: Towards Cultures of Conflict Transformation Chapter 1. Rajaa Essaghyry and Aadel Essaadani: Three Moroccan Women’s Liberation Journeys Chapter 2. Angelica Lucia Damian Bernal, Maria Veronica Ibarra Garcia, Eva Citlali Jiménez Rodríguez, Violeta Torres Carroll, Paola Cueto Jimenez: High School Women in the Face of Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards the Production of Spaces of Prevention and Sisterhood Chapter 3. Taghreed El Masry, Fatma Abubaker, Hana El-Badri and Eman Alzaanin: Narratives of Change: Young Palestinian Women’s Engagement with Short Stories to Promote Dialogue for Peacebuilding Chapter 4. Chipo Basopo, Simbarashe Mudhokweni and Rashiwe Chipurunyenye: Creative Corridors: Peace, Inclusivity and Engagement with Persons with Disabilities Chapter 5. Evelyn Arizpe, Sinéad Gormally, Nohora Niño Vega, Jeronimo Castillo Muñoz, Manuela Suárez Rueda, Javiera Donoso Jiménez, Alejandro Bahena Rivera and Sergio Hernández Mendoza: A Tale of Two Cities: Recovering Community Spaces for Peacebuilding in Medellín and Acapulco Part 2: Popular Arts and Everyday Culture Meet Gender-Based Violence   Chapter 6. Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Abigail Opoku Mensah: Popular Arts as Communication Tools for the Eradication of Gender-Based Violence and Child Marriage in Ghana Chapter 7. Mahmoud O. Jalambo, Nazmi Al-Masri, Somaya M. Saym and Azza Al-Sahhar: Resilient Palestinian Women Facing Gender-Based Conflict in the Gaza Strip Chapter 8. Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Sandra Bhatasara and Gareth James: Popular Culture and Gender-Based Violence in an Evolving COVID-19 Context in Zimbabwe Chapter 9. Hasiyatu Abubakari, Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah and Abigail Opoku Mensah: Promoting Women’s Participation in Social Transformation Through Popular Arts in Kusaal-Speaking Communities in Ghana Part 3: Reflexivity, Dilemmas and Safeguarding with Grassroots Organisations Chapter 10. Rocío Elizabeth Muñoz Santamaría and Carlos Eduardo Arias Galindo: Decolonial Praxes: Metaphors, Mediation and Writing in Motion Chapter 11. Maria Grazia Imperiale, Giovanna Fassetta and Fatma Abubaker: Contextualising Safeguarding in International Development Research: Requirements and Challenges Chapter 12. Julie E. McAdam, Cristina Amescua and Evelyn Arizpe: Between Success and Failure: Researching with Grassroots Organisations Involved in Conflict Transformation Chapter 13. Alison Phipps: The Many Twists and Turns in the Pathways to Peace: Reflections on the Bright Sadness of Decolonising and Structuring Cultural Work Index
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Unique collection of studies exploring the under-researched subject of the relationship between culture and peace

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800418349
Publisert
2024-12-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Vekt
500 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
318

Biographical note

Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes is a Lecturer in Forced Migration and Decolonial Education with the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages, and Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and Co-convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET).

Tawona Sitholé is a Lecturer in Creative Practice Education with the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages, and Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.