TY - JOUR
T1 - Creative community activism in global contexts
AU - Turner, Jimmy
AU - Clisby, Suzanne
PY - 2020/12/31
Y1 - 2020/12/31
N2 - In this introduction to this special issue about creative community activism in global contexts, we draw together key conceptual and methodological principles of this collection. We begin from the standpoint that equality is a cultural artefact, a socio-cultural and political product specifically located in time and space and as such subject to creation and re-creation. Creative activism offers us a medium to both engage with and take action on issues of culture and gender in/equality. Through the creative activisms explored here, communities, researchers, and artists combine social action with creativity and arts to challenge inequalities, promote positive futures, and enable socio-cultural wellbeing in innovative ways that can be simultaneously engaging and participatory, and decolonising and democratising. They underscore how through creative activism hierarchies of power and knowledge production and lived experiences of in/equalities can be explored, understood, and contested.
AB - In this introduction to this special issue about creative community activism in global contexts, we draw together key conceptual and methodological principles of this collection. We begin from the standpoint that equality is a cultural artefact, a socio-cultural and political product specifically located in time and space and as such subject to creation and re-creation. Creative activism offers us a medium to both engage with and take action on issues of culture and gender in/equality. Through the creative activisms explored here, communities, researchers, and artists combine social action with creativity and arts to challenge inequalities, promote positive futures, and enable socio-cultural wellbeing in innovative ways that can be simultaneously engaging and participatory, and decolonising and democratising. They underscore how through creative activism hierarchies of power and knowledge production and lived experiences of in/equalities can be explored, understood, and contested.
KW - creative
KW - community
KW - activism
KW - global
KW - in/equalities
UR - http://www.krepublishers.com/Sstudiesonhomeandcommunityscience.html
U2 - 10.31901/24566780.2020/14.1-2.343
DO - 10.31901/24566780.2020/14.1-2.343
M3 - Article
SN - 0973-7189
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Studies on Home and Community Science
JF - Studies on Home and Community Science
IS - 1-2
ER -